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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)

Building a Docker image with a microservice

In the first part of this chapter, we will build a Docker image with the necessary version of the Rust compiler and build an image with a compiled microservice. We will use a set of microservices from other chapters to show how to join microservices created with different frameworks. We will use the users, emails, and content microservices from Chapter 9Simple REST Definition and Request Routing with Frameworks and the router microservice from Chapter 11, Involving Concurrency with Actors and Actix Crate, and we'll also tune them to be configurable. Also, we will add a dbsync microservice, which will do all of the necessary migrations to a database, because we will use two microservices that use the database with the diesel crate and there will be a conflict if both microservices try to apply...