Hands-On Microservices with Rust

Parsing paths in a microservice

A common task in web development is to use functions that work with persistent storage. These functions are often called create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) functions. They are the most common operations with data.

We can implement a CRUD set for our service, but first we have to identify the entity that we want to work with. Imagine that we need three types of entities: users, articles, and comments. In this case, I recommend that you separate the microservices, because the users microservice is responsible for identity, the articles microservice is responsible for the content, and the comments microservice handles content. However, you would get more benefits if you could reuse these entities for more ...