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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

By : Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh
Book Image

Practical Site Reliability Engineering

By: Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh

Overview of this book

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is being touted as the most competent paradigm in establishing and ensuring next-generation high-quality software solutions. This book starts by introducing you to the SRE paradigm and covers the need for highly reliable IT platforms and infrastructures. As you make your way through the next set of chapters, you will learn to develop microservices using Spring Boot and make use of RESTful frameworks. You will also learn about GitHub for deployment, containerization, and Docker containers. Practical Site Reliability Engineering teaches you to set up and sustain containerized cloud environments, and also covers architectural and design patterns and reliability implementation techniques such as reactive programming, and languages such as Ballerina and Rust. In the concluding chapters, you will get well-versed with service mesh solutions such as Istio and Linkerd, and understand service resilience test practices, API gateways, and edge/fog computing. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience on working with SRE concepts and be able to deliver highly reliable apps and services.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
10
Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring
Index

Rust programming


Let's get started with the Rust language. Before going into detail about Rust programming, it is important to consider why we need it, bearing in mind we already have several other languages such as Java, C/C++, and Python. In C/C++/C# we have a lot of control over the hardware that we are running on, so we can optimize it properly. In C/C++/C# languages, we can have more control, as we can translate them directly to assembly code, but they are not very safe, as small mistakes can create big segfaults. On the other hand, we have the Python and Ruby languages, which give us more safety, but very little control over what's going on. This is where Rust comes into play. Using Rust, we have all the control, plus all the safety as well.

Note

The official definition given by (rust-lang.org) is that Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.

Rust is a systems programming language, which means you can utilize some...