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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

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  1. We would create a security group for the database that only accepts traffic to and from the EC2 instance security group. If we were having to make a migration, we can SSH into an EC2 instance and use it as a proxy to connect to a database. You can also do this with database viewing software such as DataGrip. Sometimes you can have an EC2 instance that is just there for a user to use as a proxy to access the database. This is known as a bastion server.
  2. When we destroy and create EC2 instances, the IP address of the EC2 instance will change. We can use an elastic IP to ensure that the IP address remains consistent, which can be helpful for automation pipelines as we can continue to point to that IP address. However, if we are using a load balancer, we do not need to use an elastic IP address as we will point our URL to the load balancer.
  3. We can automate the association of an elastic IP to an EC2 instance using Terraform and its powerful data resource. This means...