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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

Part 4:Testing and Deployment

When an application is built, we need to deploy it on a server so others can use it. We also need to test it to ensure it works to our expectations before we deploy it. In this part, we will cover unit and end-to-end testing using tools such as Postman. We’ll build our own build and testing pipelines to automate the testing, building, and deployment processes. We’ll cover how HTTP requests route to servers and what the HTTPS protocol is so we can implement it on AWS. We will also route traffic to our frontend and backend with NGINX, balance traffic between two individual servers on AWS, and lock down traffic to these servers and load balancer with AWS security groups. We will automate the AWS infrastructure using Terraform.

This part includes the following chapters:

  • Chapter 9, Testing Our Application Endpoints and Components
  • Chapter 10, Deploying Our Application on AWS
  • Chapter 11, Configuring HTTPS with NGINX on AWS
  • ...