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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

Questions

  1. Why can we not simply code multiple futures into the middleware and merely call and return the one that is right considering request parameters and authorization outcomes, but must wrap them in an enum instead?
  2. How do we add a new version of views but still support the old views in case our API is serving mobile apps and third parties that might not update instantly?
  3. Why is the stateless constraint becoming more important in the era of elastic cloud computing?
  4. How could we enable another service to be incorporated utilizing the properties of the JWT?
  5. A warning log message hides the fact that an error has happened from the user but still alerts us to fix it. Why do we ever bother telling the user that an error has occurred and to try again with an error log?
  6. What are the advantages of logging all requests?
  7. Why do we sometimes have to use async move?