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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)

Testing and Debugging Rust Microservices

Microservices, like any other application, can have bugs. You can make a mistake when writing new code, or by adding extra features to an application. In this chapter, we will explore the available tools to test and debug your microservices.

We will start by creating unit and integration tests for an application. We will also examine the testing capabilities of the actix crate.

After this, we will study debugging with the LLDB Debugger, and also examine logging as a debugging technique, since not every bug can be caught with a traditional debugger. Furthermore, if you use a product in production, you can't attach a debugger to it.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter: 

  • Testing microservices

  • Debugging microservices