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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)

Optimization techniques 

In the previous section, we optimized the source code, but there are also alternative techniques of optimization by using special compilation flags and third-party tools. In this section, we will cover some of these optimization techniques. We will talk a little about reducing sizes, benchmarks, and profiling Rust code.

Optimization is a creative topic. There is no special recipe for optimization, but in this section, we will create a small microservice that generates an index page with the current time, and then we will try to optimize it. With this example, I hope to show you some optimization ideas for your projects.

Link-time optimizations

The compiler does a lot of optimizations automatically...