Zero To Production is the ideal starting point for your journey as a Rust backend developer. You will learn by doing: you will build a fully functional email newsletter API, starting from scratch. When you read these lines, Rust has achieved its biggest goal: make an offer to programmers to write their production systems in a different language. By the end of the book, it is still your choice to follow that path, but you have all you need to consider the offer. I’ve been part of the growth process of two widely different languages: Ruby and Rust - by programming them, but also by running events, being part of their project management and running business around them. Through that, I had the privilege of being in touch with many of the creators of those languages and consider some of them friends. Rust has been my one chance in life to see and help a language grow from the experimental stage to adoption in the industry. Rust was never intended to be a research platform - it was always meant as a programming language solving real, tangible issues in large codebases. Rust is an industry language, through and through. The Rust ecosystem has had a remarkable focus on smashing adoption barriers with amazing material geared towards beginners and newcomers, a relentless effort that goes from documentation to the continuous polishing of the compiler diagnostics. There is value in serving the largest possible audience.