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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)

CI and CD tools

In this section, we will discuss systems for CI, and bootstrap a CI server instance with a build agent using Docker Compose. But first, let's look at some popular CI products and their delivery capabilities.

TravisCI

TravisCI is the most popular CI service for open source projects, because it provides a free plan for such projects and is integrated well with GitHub. To use it, all you have to do is add the .travis.yml file to the root of repository of your project. It supports Rust out of the box.

With TravisCI, you can build your projects in either Linux or macOS environments. Let's write a simple example of a .travis.yml file. The first part of this file is a building matrix declaration...