This Easter I had some time to dedicate to working through the rustling exercises. I still consider myself a novice rust developer. I frequently don’t know rust idioms, and spend a lot of time struggling to get an idea working at the fidelity of a prototype. Once I have something working, I’m able to revise and refine it incrementally, but getting the initial idea out is tough.

I’m working on an infrastructure application that provides a GRPC API to its clients. This will be a high throughput system, so we are building it in Rust using tonic and tokio to build the gRPC API. I wanted to implement request authentication for this system so that the service was resilient to Server-Side-Request-Forgery, and unauthenticated requests.

I’m always looking for new challenges. With my background mostly being in web development, I have little to no experience in low-level languages. In the past I’ve tinkered with C, and go-lang. This summer, I decided to try and learn Rust. Rust aims to be a very safe and performant systems-level language.