I had 0 Rust experience and close to 0 of system programming experience (except playing with some lower level communication protocols etc. but nothing fancy), b

I had 0 Rust experience and close to 0 of system programming experience (except playing with some lower level communication protocols etc. but nothing fancy), but I'd say that something like message streaming isn't the system programming - it's close to building the database, but nowhere close to making direct usage of low level system APIs.