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Hands-On Microservices with Rust

By : Denis Kolodin
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Hands-On Microservices with Rust

By: Denis Kolodin

Overview of this book

Microservice architecture is sweeping the world as the de facto pattern for building web-based applications. Rust is a language particularly well-suited for building microservices. It is a new system programming language that offers a practical and safe alternative to C. This book describes web development using the Rust programming language and will get you up and running with modern web frameworks and crates with examples of RESTful microservices creation. You will deep dive into Reactive programming, and asynchronous programming, and split your web application into a set of concurrent actors. The book provides several HTTP-handling examples with manageable memory allocations. You will walk through stateless high-performance microservices, which are ideally suitable for computation or caching tasks, and look at stateful microservices, which are filled with persistent data and database interactions. As we move along, you will learn how to use Rust macros to describe business or protocol entities of our application and compile them into native structs, which will be performed at full speed with the help of the server's CPU. Finally, you will be taken through examples of how to test and debug microservices and pack them into a tiny monolithic binary or put them into a container and deploy them to modern cloud platforms such as AWS.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Scalable architecture

We avoid monoliths, and microservices can handle more requests per second if you develop them in the right way, but using microservices doesn't mean you have a scalable application effortlessly. It makes any part of an application flexible for scaling, and you have to write loosely coupled microservices that can run in many instances.

Basic ideas

To make an application scalable, you can choose one of two approaches.

In the first case, you can start more copies of the whole application. You may think it's impossible, but imagine a service that earns money from ads and provides a service to convert images into PDFs. This service can be scaled this way, and you can handle as many requests...