Building an Art Auction System in Rust: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, and Semantic Search (opens in new tab)

Building an Art Auction System in Rust 1. Introduction In 2025, after years of building backends in various languages, I made a radical decision: rewrite my startup's entire auction system in Rust. It wasn't a trend — it was a necessity. Why Rust for an auction system? A real-time auction system has very specific requirements: Tens of thousands of concurrent WebSocket connections during live auction events. Sub-50ms bid latency — nobody wants to lose a piece of art due to network lag. Guarant...