A practical look at using tower as the middleware layer for Rust AWS Lambda functions, with examples that build up to a DynamoDB-backed per-IP rate limiter. It covers Service, Layer, stack ordering, short-circuiting, boxed async futures, and testing middleware without deploying a Lambda. Comments
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A hands-on dev review focused on i18n, date/number formatting, and non-ASCII edge cases. Why I Tested TestSprite for Locale Handling Specifically Most AI testing tools get reviewed for their core functionality — does it find bugs, does it write good test code, does it integrate with CI/CD. Those reviews exist. What I couldn't find was a focused review on how TestSprite handles locale-specific edge
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