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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
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Section 2: Fusing Rust with Python
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Section 3: Infusing Rust into a Web Application

Chapter 10: Injecting Rust into a Python Flask App

In Chapter 9, Structuring a Python Flask App for Rust, we set up a basic Python web application in Flask that could be deployed using Docker. In this chapter, we are going to fuse Rust into every aspect of that web application. This means polishing our skills of defining Rust packages that can be installed using pip. With these packages, we are going to plug Rust code into our Flask and Celery containers. We are also going to directly interact with an existing database using Rust, without having to worry about migrations. This is because our Rust package is going to mirror the schema of the existing database. We will need a Rust nightly version to compile our package, so we will also learn how to manage Rust nightly when building our Flask image. We will also learn how to use Rust packages from private GitHub repositories.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Fusing Rust into Flask and Celery
  • Deploying...