I dodged axum for a year, sure a Rust web framework would fight me on every handler. It didn't. Here's the axum setup, state, and…
I picked axum for a Rust service and spent a weekend on basics nobody documents. Here's the axum + sqlx production setup I actually ship,…
How I actually choose a Rust web framework in 2026, with the four questions I ask before opening Cargo.toml and a real code snippet from…
How I split thiserror and anyhow inside Axum handlers, then let IntoResponse map domain errors to real status codes without leaking internals to callers.
The Axum patterns I actually use in production Rust services: extractors, Tower layer ordering, an error enum that works, and pragmatic tracing.
I picked axum for a new Rust service last month. Here's what I learned comparing axum, actix-web, and Rocket in 2026, with code and when…