Back to the future: building "Cloud Functions Lite" with Rust and CGI - RustLab Deep Space - 11:30

Back to the future: building "Cloud Functions Lite" with Rust and CGI

CGI is largely forgotten but combined with Rust, it becomes a surprisingly practical deployment model for shared hosting. This session revisits the Common Gateway Interface and shows how to build simple, robust, and cost-effective web backends without a running server process.
Drawing on real B2B projects in industrial measurement, we cover webhook handlers and payment integrations built with cgi-rs, axum-based routes, and tower middleware including a performance comparison between Rust CGI and PHP.

LEVEL: Intermediate

Speaker

Marcel Koch

Software Architect

Place

RustLab Deep Space

Length

45 min

When

November 3rd, 2026

11:30

Back to the future: building "Cloud Functions Lite" with Rust and CGI - RustLab Deep Space - 11:30

Abstract

Drawing on real B2B projects in industrial measurement, we cover webhook handlers and payment integrations built with cgi-rs, axum-based routes, and tower middleware including a performance comparison between Rust CGI and PHP.

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