Running web services safely on public interfaces is itself challenge and a lot of things need to be taken care of. While many details fall within the job description of a security engineer, developers should adhere to at least a minimum set of best practices so they rightfully earn the trust of their users. At the start, there is transport encryption (TLS), which is something we did not include in any recipes in this chapter since reverse proxies and load balancers provide amazing and simple integration for this (and let's encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/ provides free certificates). This chapter focuses on using the actix-web middleware infrastructure to authenticate requests via JWT (https://jwt.io/) at the application layer.
Rust Programming Cookbook
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Rust Programming Cookbook
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Overview of this book
Rust 2018, Rust's first major milestone since version 1.0, brings more advancement in the Rust language. The Rust Programming Cookbook is a practical guide to help you overcome challenges when writing Rust code.
This Rust book covers recipes for configuring Rust for different environments and architectural designs, and provides solutions to practical problems. It will also take you through Rust's core concepts, enabling you to create efficient, high-performance applications that use features such as zero-cost abstractions and improved memory management. As you progress, you'll delve into more advanced topics, including channels and actors, for building scalable, production-grade applications, and even get to grips with error handling, macros, and modularization to write maintainable code. You will then learn how to overcome common roadblocks when using Rust for systems programming, IoT, web development, and network programming. Finally, you'll discover what Rust 2018 has to offer for embedded programmers.
By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to build fast and safe applications and services using Rust.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
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Starting Off with Rust
Going Further with Advanced Rust
Managing Projects with Cargo
Fearless Concurrency
Handling Errors and Other Results
Expressing Yourself with Macros
Integrating Rust with Other Languages
Safe Programming for the Web
Systems Programming Made Easy
Getting Practical with Rust
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