Rust Message Consumers with Tokio: Queues, Retries, Dead Letters, and Backpressure

A practical two-hour session on Rust Message Consumers with Tokio, focused on Queues, Retries, Dead Letters, and Backpressure. 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 Message Consumers with Tokio
• Apply Queues in a small working example
• Apply Retries in a small working example
• Apply Dead Letters 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.