Building A Home Lab-Testing System...with Rust
Hi there, You don't know me yet, so here's a short version: I'm a backend engineer, and I'm building an application that connects patients to medical laboratories for home sample collections. The flow goes: book an appointment for a lab test, a lab's phlebotomist comes to you instead of the other way around, they collect the sample and flag it as done, and the lab handles the results. And I'm…
A backend engineer is setting out to create an application that connects patients with medical laboratories for home sample collections. The process involves booking a lab test, a phlebotomist collecting the sample, and the lab handling the results. The engineer, who had previously worked with Python and Node, decided to use Rust for this project.
The main reason for choosing Rust was its suitability for handling real data, including financial transactions and patient information. Rust's strict type system and compiler forces the engineer to think about memory, ownership, and data handling explicitly, which helps prevent errors and invalid states. The engineer is documenting their journey building the software with Rust in a series of posts, starting with this first one.
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