Books

Go from your first line of Rust to building fast, safe, and production-ready applications with confidence. This practical guide explains every essential language feature, modern development tools, and key ecosystem crates through clear explanations and real-world examples, helping you write idiomatic, efficient and maintainable Rust code from day one.

We'll be writing kernels in Rust and seeing how they match up with their C++ equivalents. If you feed a GPU properly, you'll see bandwidth quadruple from just one changed subscript. It'll get you working with thousands of threads, pricing a financial option based on an exact formula, and shipping an inference pipeline that outruns its Python equivalent for reasons you can name.

I wrote this book to show exactly what happens when you add Rust to the kernel. Not as a toy. Not as a single driver in a conference demo. It's a full module that covers process management, memory allocation, file systems, networking, device drivers, inter-process communication, and even machine learning inference. It's all built on safe abstractions, all compiled into one loadable binary, all tested on a running kernel. You'll find that each chapter adds new source files to the same module.

This third edition covers Rust 1.85 and the Rust 2024 Edition in full. The new chapters on concurrency, the 2024 edition migration, GPU computing, Go integration, and Linux kernel programming show where the Rust community has moved since the second edition, and where systems programming as a discipline is heading. You might be writing your first Rust function or your hundredth production service, but I hope this book makes the language feel less like a puzzle and more like a tool you are already familiar with. That was the only goal I had when I wrote it.

Build a complete x86_64 hardware-assisted hypervisor in Rust from the ground up. Through real, compilable code and clear explanations, you'll implement every major subsystem, from CPU and memory virtualization to device emulation, VirtIO, and multi-vCPU scheduling, gaining a practical understanding of modern virtualization.

Most developers can build a web server with a framework. Far fewer understand what happens underneath. Rust from Sockets to Servers takes you from raw TCP sockets to a production-ready web server built in Rust, giving you a deep understanding of HTTP, async programming, TLS, routing, and the foundations behind every modern web application.

Contains 1000 pages, 186 Pattern with 888 Examples

Explore the power of Rust with "Rust Projects: Write a Redis Clone". This hands-on guide takes you through building a Redis-inspired database from the ground up, introducing key programming concepts like TCP connections, the RESP protocol, and concurrency. Following the CodeCrafters challenge, this book gradually builds your skills, making complex topics accessible. Whether you're new to Rust or looking to deepen your understanding, this project-based journey offers practical, real-world insights into modern systems programming. The book contains 40% discount code for CodeCrafters.io!

Thinking is Rust

What the compiler is really doing

 Learn the hardware rules that make Rust code fast

In this book, we are building a complete working server, and again we rebuild the whole thing on a different framework. It's about testing out a new approach. If the architecture is honest, the second version costs almost nothing and the business logic never moves. We ran the test, and I let you watch the result rather than describing it.

The Rust book written for Python developers. Every concept explained from your Python mental model — ownership through GC comparison, traits through protocols, concurrency through the GIL. Build a CLI tool that outperforms Python by 10-50x, then call it from Python with PyO3.