Rust Middleware with Tower: Timeouts, CORS, Compression, and Tracing

A practical two-hour session on Rust Middleware with Tower, focused on Timeouts, CORS, Compression, and Tracing. 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 Middleware with Tower
• Apply Timeouts in a small working example
• Apply CORS in a small working example
• Apply Compression 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.