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Hands-On Microservices with Rust
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Hands-On Microservices with Rust: Build, test, and deploy scalable and reactive microservices with Rust 2018

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Hands-On Microservices with Rust

Developing a Microservice with the Hyper Crate

This chapter will provide a short introduction to creating microservices using Rust the and hyper crate. We will look at the basics of the HTTP protocol and the principles of routing. We'll also describe a minimal REST service written completely with Rust, using a simple method.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Using hyper
  • Handling HTTP requests
  • Using regular expressions for routing
  • Getting parameters from the environment

Technical requirements

Because we're starting to write code in this chapter, you'll need to have certain software in order to compile and run examples:

  • I recommend you use the rustup tool, which will keep your Rust instance up to date. If you don't have this tool, you can get it from https://rustup.rs/. When it's installed, run the rustup update command to update the current installation.
  • The Rust compiler, at least version 1.31.
  • The hyper crate, which we'll use to compile the code, requires the OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/) library. The most popular operating systems already include the OpenSSL package and you can follow the manual of your package manager to install it.

You can get the examples shown in this chapter from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Microservices-with-Rust/tree/master/Chapter02...

Binding a Tiny Server

In this section, we'll create a Tiny Server from scratch. We'll start with the necessary dependencies, declare a main function, and then try to build and run it.

Adding necessary dependencies

First, we need to create a new folder where we'll add the necessary dependencies to create our first microservice. Use cargo to make a new project called hyper-microservice:

> cargo new hyper-microservice

Open the created folder and add dependencies to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
hyper = "0.12"

The single dependency is the hyper crate. The latest release of this crate is asynchronous and lies on top of the futures crate. It also uses the tokio crate for runtime,...

Handling incoming requests

We've created a server, but it isn't very useful until it can respond to real requests. In this section, we'll add handlers to the requests and use the principles of REST.

Adding a service function

In the previous section, we implemented simple services based on service_fn_ok functions, which expect the service function not to throw any errors. There are also service_fn functions, which can be used to create handlers that can return an error. These are more suitable for asynchronous Future results. As we saw previously, the Future trait has two associated types: one for a successful result and one for an error. The service_fn function expects the result to be converted...

Implementing the REST principles

If everyone were to create rules of interaction with microservices from scratch, we'd have an excess of private standards of intercommunication. REST isn't a strict set of rules, but it's an architectural style intended to make interacting with microservices simple. It provides a suggested set of HTTP methods to create, read, update, and delete data; and perform actions. We'll add methods to our service and fit them to REST principles.

Adding a shared state

You may have already heard that shared data is a bad thing and a potential cause of bottlenecks, if it has to be changed from separate threads. However, shared data can be useful if we want to share the address of...

Routing advanced requests

In the preceding example, we used pattern matching to detect the destination of a request. This isn't a flexible technique, because the path often contains extra characters that have to be taken into account. The /user/1/ path, for example, contains the trailing slash, / , which can't be parsed with a user ID in the previous version of our microservice. There's a flexible tool to fix this issue: regular expressions.

Defining paths with regular expressions

A regular expression is a sequence of characters that express a pattern to be searched for in a string. Regular expressions provide you with the ability to create tiny parsers that split a text into parts using...

Summary

In this chapter, we created a microservice using a hyper crate. We started with a minimal example that only responds with the Rust Microservice message. Then, we created a microservice that has two distinct paths  the first being the index page request and the second, the NOT_FOUND response.

Once we learned the basics, we then started to use the match expression to make the microservice REST-compliant. We also added the ability to handle users' data with four basic operations—create, read, update, and delete.

To expand the routing capabilities in the last example of the chapter, we implemented routing based on regular expressions. Regular expressions are compact patterns that check and extract data from a text.

In this chapter, we encountered various crates—hyper, futures, slab, regex, and lazy_static. We&apos...

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Key benefits

  • Start your microservices journey and get a broader perspective on microservices development using RUST 2018,
  • Build, deploy, and test microservices using AWS
  • Explore advanced techniques for developing microservices such as actor model, Requests Routing, and threads

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers who have basic knowledge of RUST, and want to learn how to build, test, scale, and manage RUST microservices. No prior experience of writing microservices in RUST is assumed.

What you will learn

  • Get acquainted with leveraging Rust web programming
  • Get to grips with various Rust crates, such as hyper, Tokio, and Actix
  • Explore RESTful microservices with Rust
  • Understand how to pack Rust code to a container using Docker
  • Familiarize yourself with Reactive microservices
  • Deploy your microservices to modern cloud platforms such as AWS
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Table of Contents

18 Chapters
Introduction to Microservices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Developing a Microservice with the Hyper Crate Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Logging and Configuring Microservice Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Data Serialization and Deserialization with the Serde Crate Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding Asynchronous Operations with Futures Crate Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Reactive Microservices - Increasing Capacity and Performance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Reliable Integration with Databases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Interaction to Database with Object-Relational Mapping Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Simple REST Definition and Request Routing with Frameworks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Background Tasks and Thread Pools in Microservices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Involving Concurrency with Actors and the Actix Crate Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scalable Microservices Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Testing and Debugging Rust Microservices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Optimization of Microservices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Packing Servers to Containers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
DevOps of Rust Microservices - Continuous Integration and Delivery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Bounded Microservices with AWS Lambda Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The difference between a blog post and a book is the amount of content... I should feel comfortable at a few chapters that I am learning something. That isn’t the case with this book, a few chapters in and I’m still getting recommendations for using rust instead of learning what makes a good rust micro service. Skip this book as there are more informative blog posts everywhere you look.
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I skimmed through the book as soon as I got it, and it indeed fills a MASSIVE gap in the existing resources available to learn rust beyond a beginner level. But, I'm about a hundred pages in now, and there are. so. many. typos. Ultimately I can figure out how the sentences were intended to be written, but the editor(s) was clearly asleep at the wheel.
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