Rust Data Contracts: Serde Schemas, Compatibility, and Backward Tests

A practical two-hour session on Rust Data Contracts, focused on Serde Schemas, Compatibility, and Backward Tests. 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 Data Contracts
• Apply Serde Schemas in a small working example
• Apply Compatibility in a small working example
• Apply and Backward Tests 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.