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Speed Up Your Python with Rust

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Book Image

Speed Up Your Python with Rust

5 (2)
By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Python has made software development easier, but it falls short in several areas including memory management that lead to poor performance and security. Rust, on the other hand, provides memory safety without using a garbage collector, which means that with its low memory footprint, you can build high-performant and secure apps relatively easily. However, rewriting everything in Rust can be expensive and risky as there might not be package support in Rust for the problem being solved. This is where Python bindings and pip come in. This book will help you, as a Python developer, to start using Rust in your Python projects without having to manage a separate Rust server or application. Seeing as you'll already understand concepts like functions and loops, this book covers the quirks of Rust such as memory management to code Rust in a productive and structured manner. You'll explore the PyO3 crate to fuse Rust code with Python, learn how to package your fused Rust code in a pip package, and then deploy a Python Flask application in Docker that uses a private Rust pip module. Finally, you'll get to grips with advanced Rust binding topics such as inspecting Python objects and modules in Rust. By the end of this Rust book, you'll be able to develop safe and high-performant applications with better concurrency support.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Understand Rust
5
Section 2: Fusing Rust with Python
11
Section 3: Infusing Rust into a Web Application

Summary

In this chapter, we built a Python Flask application that had access to a database and message bus to allow the queuing of heavy tasks in the background. Following this, we wrapped our services in Docker containers and deployed them in a simple docker-compose file with NGINX. Additionally, we learned how to build our Celery worker and Flask application in the same Dockerfile using the same build. This made our code easier to maintain and deploy. We also managed our migrations for our database using alembic and a configuration file, which was then switched to another configuration file when we were deploying our application. While this is not a web development textbook, we have covered all of the essentials when it comes to structuring a Flask web application.

Further details regarding database queries, data serialization, or HTML and CSS rendering are covered, in a straightforward manner, in the Flask documentation. We have covered all of the difficult stuff. Now, we can...