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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 have put all our Rust fusing skills to work to build packages that are baked into Docker images for a Python web application. We attached Rust packages directly to the web application, and then to the Celery worker, resulting in a significant speedup when we asked our web application to calculate the Fibonacci number.

Then, we altered our build process to take Rust packages from private GitHub repositories when building our Python web application image. Finally, we connected directly to the database with Rust and used Rust nightly to compile it. We managed to include this in our Python web application Docker build. This resulted in us not only being able to fuse Rust into a deployable web application but also use Rust nightly and databases to solve our problems

With this in mind, we can now use what we have learned in this book for production web applications. You can now start coding in Rust and plug your Rust packages into existing Python web applications...