Rust Servers, Services, and Apps

by Prabhu E

Released October 2023

Publisher(s): Manning Publications

ISBN: None

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Audiobook description

Deliver fast, reliable, and maintainable applications by building backend servers, services, and frontends all in nothing but Rust.

In Rust Servers, Services, and Apps, you’ll learn:

Developing database-backed web services in Rust
Building and securing RESTful APIs
Writing server-side web applications in Rust
Measuring and benchmarking web service performance
Packaging and deploying web services
Full-stack Rust applications

The blazingly fast, safe, and efficient Rust language has been voted “most loved” for multiple consecutive years on the StackOverflow survey. Rust Server, Services, and Apps shows you why! Inside, you’ll build web servers, RESTful services, server-rendered apps, and client frontends just using Rust. You’ll learn to write code with small and predictable resource footprints, and build high-performing applications with unmatched safety and reliability.

About the Technology
Build speedy, stable, and safe web servers in Rust! With a unique approach to memory management and concurrency, Rust excels at getting the low-level details right so your applications run fast and flawlessly. And Rust’s incredible compiler helps you avoid expensive mistakes when you’re deploying web services and other core components in production.

About the Book
Rust Servers, Services, and Apps shows you how to create modern distributed web apps using the Rust language. You’ll start with the basics: building a simple HTTP server and a RESTful web service. Then, you’ll make them production ready by adding security, database interactivity, and error handling. Finally, you’ll tackle a digital storefront service, create a single page app, and dig into asynchronous programming. All examples are fully illustrated and include annotated code you can easily adapt to your own projects.

What's Inside

Craft resilient and secure RESTful APIs
Package and deploy web services
Refactor fearlessly thanks to Rust’s guaranteed safety
Slash costs with Rust’s runtime and compile-time optimizations
Asynchronous programming with Rust

About the Reader
For web developers who know the basics of Rust.

About the Author
Prabhu Eshwarla is the CTO of a startup building a layer-1 blockchain using Rust. Previously, he held engineering and leadership roles at Hewlett Packard.

Quotes
Demonstrates how to use the unique features of Rust to bring speed and safety in web development.
- David Paccoud, Clario

Pioneering and practical.
- Pethuru Raj, Reliance Jio Platforms

Extremely well-organized and well-written. Indispensable for developing large-scale Rust web applications.
- Josh Sandeman, Mpathy Software

Learn how to write fast and safe web applications, and have fun doing it.
- Alessandro Campeis, Prima