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Hands-On Microservices with Rust

By : Denis Kolodin
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Hands-On Microservices with Rust

By: Denis Kolodin

Overview of this book

Microservice architecture is sweeping the world as the de facto pattern for building web-based applications. Rust is a language particularly well-suited for building microservices. It is a new system programming language that offers a practical and safe alternative to C. This book describes web development using the Rust programming language and will get you up and running with modern web frameworks and crates with examples of RESTful microservices creation. You will deep dive into Reactive programming, and asynchronous programming, and split your web application into a set of concurrent actors. The book provides several HTTP-handling examples with manageable memory allocations. You will walk through stateless high-performance microservices, which are ideally suitable for computation or caching tasks, and look at stateful microservices, which are filled with persistent data and database interactions. As we move along, you will learn how to use Rust macros to describe business or protocol entities of our application and compile them into native structs, which will be performed at full speed with the help of the server's CPU. Finally, you will be taken through examples of how to test and debug microservices and pack them into a tiny monolithic binary or put them into a container and deploy them to modern cloud platforms such as AWS.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Using databases

Another good feature of actix-web, in combination with the actix crate, is the ability to use databases. Do you remember how we used SyncArbyter to perform background tasks? It's a good approach to implement database interaction since there are not enough asynchronous database connectors and we have to use synchronous ones. Let's add the caching of responses to a Redis database for our previous example.

The database interaction actor

We start by implementing an actor that interacts with a database. Copy the previous example and add the redis crate to the dependencies:

redis = "0.9"

We use Redis because it's great for caching, but we can also store...