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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)

Reading the configuration from file

Environment variables and command-line arguments are useful to add temporary change parameters for a single run. They are a more convenient way to configure servers to use configuration files. This approach doesn't conform to The Twelve-Factor App methodology, but it's useful in cases when you need to set long parameters.

There are many formats that can be used for configuration files. The popular ones include TOML, YAML, and JSON. We will use TOML, because it is widely used with the Rust programming language.

Adding the TOML config

The TOML file format is implemented in the toml crate. It previously used the now-obsolete rustc-serialize crate, but the last few versions have...