If you want to learn how to use Rust for backend development, this is the place.
Rust's adoption is at an all-time high with more and more companies trying it out.
Zero To Production is the ideal starting point for your Rust journey.
You will learn by doing: we will start from scratch and build together, step by step, a fully functional email newsletter backend API.
You'll learn how to:
All code comes attached to the book, tests included.
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You will get immediate access to the first six chapters (150 pages) in PDF, ePUB, MOBI.
All the source code is attached.
A new chapter is released every three/four weeks. The book should be complete in 2021.
You will be notified and be able to download new chapters as soon as they are ready!
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This has the workings of being one of the best introductions to Rust for web devs: the explanations are really clear and almost of all my questions get immediately answered in the very next paragraph, as if the author was secretly a mind reader.
Foreword
Setting the stage: what is this book about? Who is this book for? A brief overview of the principles behind Cloud-native applications.
Getting started
We'll start building our Rust toolkit: compilation, linting, security audit, formatting. We'll have a solid CI pipeline in place by the end of the chapter.
Our project
We want to build an email newsletter API: what does it look like? We'll focus on working in iterations and introduce the concept of user stories.
Bootstrapping the application
We'll boostrap an actix-web application from scratch, build a POST endpoint to enroll new subscribers, interface with a database to store their details with sqlx - all done with a test-driven development approach.
Telemetry
An in-depth exploration of what it means to build an observable API as well as the tools to properly instrument our code (log and tracing crate).
Continuous Deployment
A thorough introduction to Docker, including all the best practices for packaging Rust projects. We will then build a deployment pipeline to ship the application to DigitalOcean's App Platform on every commit!
Domain Modelling With Types
Rust is fast, but performance are only half of the picture: its type system is powerful enough to enable advanced design patterns. The chapter explores how to encode invariants using Rust types.
Coming soon
You can see the full list of planned chapters in the book sample. A new chapter is published every two/three weeks.
I have been developing in Rust for almost three years, previously in my free time, now professionally on a daily basis.
I have been fairly active in the OpenSource community.
I am the author of a few crates - ndarray-stats, wiremock, linfa and cargo-chef.
I also wrote some test-driven workshops to get people started with Rust - build-your-own-jira-with-rust and ndarray-koans.