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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
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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

Logging our server traffic

So far, our application does not log anything. This does not directly affect the running of the app. However, there are some advantages to logging. Logging enables us to debug our applications.

Right now, as we are developing locally, it may not seem like logging is really needed. However, in a production environment, there are many reasons why an application can fail, including Docker container orchestration issues. Logs that note what processes have happened can help us to pinpoint an error. We can also use logging to see when edge cases and errors arise for us to monitor the general health of our application. When it comes to logging, there are four types of logs that we can build:

  • Informational (info): This is general logging. If we want to track a general process and how it is progressing, we use this type of log. Examples of using this are starting and stopping the server and logging certain checkpoints that we want to monitor, such as HTTP...