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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

What is HTTPS?

So far, our frontend and backend applications have been running through HTTP. However, this is not secure and has some drawbacks. To secure the traffic between our browser and our NGINX server, we are going to have to ensure that our application is using the HTTP/2 protocol. The HTTP/2 protocol has the following differences from the standard HTTP/1 protocol:

  • Binary protocol
  • Compressed headers
  • Persistent connections
  • Multiplex streaming

We can go through the preceding laid-out points and discuss the differences.

Binary protocol

HTTP uses a text-based protocol whereas HTTP/2 uses a binary protocol. A binary protocol uses bytes to transmit data as opposed to human-readable characters, which are encoded using the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). Using bytes reduces the number of possible errors and the size needed to transfer data. It will also enable us to encrypt our data stream, which is the basis of HTTPS.

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