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Architecting High-Performance Network Protocols in Rust: A Deep Dive into Tokio and Zero-Copy Parsing

In the landscape of systems programming in 2025, Rust has firmly established itself not just as a participant, but as the dominant architect of modern networking infrastructure. From the proxy layers powering massive cloud providers to the distributed databases handling millions of transactions per second, the industry has shifted away from C++ and Java toward Rust’s promise of memory safety without garbage collection pauses.