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Hands-On Microservices with Rust

By : Denis Kolodin
Book Image

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)

Building an image

We have prepared the Dockerfile to build an image that first builds all the dependencies for our microservice and then builds all the source code. To start this process, you have to use the Docker build command:

docker build -t users-microservice:latest 

When you run this command, you will see how Docker prepares files to build an image and builds all the dependencies, but only for the empty crate without the sources of a microservice:

Sending build context to Docker daemon  13.82kB
Step 1/12 : FROM rust:nightly
---> 91e52fb2cea5
Step 2/12 : RUN USER=root cargo new --bin users-microservice
---> Running in 3ff6b18a9c72
Created binary (application) `users-microservice` package
Removing intermediate container 3ff6b18a9c72
---> 85f700c4a567
Step 3/12 : WORKDIR /users-microservice
---> Running in eff894de0a40
Removing intermediate container eff894de0a40...