Rust Authentication with Axum: Sessions, Cookies, Extractors, and Middleware

A practical two-hour session on Rust Authentication with Axum, focused on Sessions, Cookies, Extractors, and Middleware. Rust is used as the implementation context while the core lesson stays on software engineering fundamentals, reliability, testing, and operational clarity.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Rust Authentication with Axum
• Apply Sessions in a small working example
• Apply Cookies in a small working example
• Apply Extractors in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.