From Spring Boot to Rust: Rewriting a Live Marketplace
From Spring Boot to Rust: Rewriting a Live Marketplace mpazari.com spent years on a legacy ASP.NET stack — the .aspx URLs still in the wild prove it. A recent Spring Boot rewrite replaced that engine, first as a JVM jar, then as a GraalVM native image to tame memory usage. The question that started this project: if we rewrote the whole application in Rust, what would we gain, what would we break, and how do we prove we broke nothing? This post covers the rewrite, the parity hunting, the server-side build/deploy pipeline, and the load test comparing all three runtimes on the same production box. ...