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Rust Web Programming - Second Edition

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Rust Web Programming - Second Edition

By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications? With this practical Rust book, you’ll discover how you can implement Rust on the web to achieve the desired performance and security as you learn techniques and tooling to build fully operational web apps. In this second edition, you’ll get hands-on with implementing emerging Rust web frameworks, including Actix, Rocket, and Hyper. It also features HTTPS configuration on AWS when deploying a web application and introduces you to Terraform for automating the building of web infrastructure on AWS. What’s more, this edition also covers advanced async topics. Built on the Tokio async runtime, this explores TCP and framing, implementing async systems with the actor framework, and queuing tasks on Redis to be consumed by a number of worker nodes. Finally, you’ll go over best practices for packaging Rust servers in distroless Rust Docker images with database drivers, so your servers are a total size of 50Mb each. By the end of this book, you’ll have confidence in your skills to build robust, functional, and scalable web applications from scratch.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Getting Started with Rust Web Development
4
Part 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
8
Part 3:Data Persistence
12
Part 4:Testing and Deployment
16
Part 5:Making Our Projects Flexible
19
Part 6:Exploring Protocol Programming and Async Concepts with Low-Level Network Applications

Implementing statelessness

Statelessness is where the server does not store any information about the client session. The advantages here are straightforward. It enables our application to scale more easily as we free up resources on the server side by storing session information on the client’s side instead.

It also empowers us to be more flexible with our computing approach. For instance, let’s say that our application has exploded in popularity. As a result, we may want to spin our app up on two computing instances or servers and have a load balancer direct traffic to both instances in a balanced manner. If information is stored on the server, the user will have an inconsistent experience.

They may update the state of their session on one computing instance, but then, when they make another request, they may hit another computing instance that has outdated data. Considering this, statelessness cannot just be achieved by storing everything in the client. If our...