RustTokioAxumNodeJS MigrationPerformanceMicroservices
Migrating Node.js API Gateways to Rust Tokio for 5x Lower Memory for 5x Lower Memory
Alex Mercer, Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 min read
Aug 25, 2026
A complete migration playbook: Axum web framework, async connection pooling, zero-copy JSON parsing, and production Docker container slimming.