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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

Attaching a URL to our deployed application on AWS

In the previous chapter, we managed to deploy our to-do application onto a server on AWS and access this application directly by putting the IP address of the server into our browser. When it comes to registering our URL, you will be exposed to multiple acronyms. To feel comfortable when navigating AWS routing, it makes sense to be familiar with URL acronyms by reading the following diagram:

Figure 11.7 – Anatomy of a URL

Figure 11.7 – Anatomy of a URL

When we are associating a URL with our application, we are going to be configuring a Domain Name System (DNS). A DNS is a system that translates a user-friendly URL to an IP address. For a DNS system to work, we will need the following components:

  • Domain registrar: An organization such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, GoDaddy, and so on that will register a domain if it receives payment for the domain and personal details of the person responsible for the domain. This...