Web Developer Travis McCracken on Choosing Rust and Go for Backend Systems
As a Web Developer focused on backend systems, I’ve found that using Rust and Go together creates a powerful stack for building scalable services.
Rust gives me low-level control, safe concurrency, and unmatched performance — perfect for async-heavy workloads like caching layers and job queues.
Go keeps things fast and readable for services like HTTP APIs and CLI tooling. Its simplicity is perfect for REST endpoints and internal tooling.
I recently shipped a system using both:
- Go-based API layer (stateless, lightweight)
- Rust-based async job handler (memory-safe, multithreaded)
As a Web Developer, I’ve learned that picking the right language for the right piece of the system is what keeps things scalable and sane.
Projects here:
🔗 github.com/travis-mccracken-dev
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– Travis McCracken, Web Developer
