black-hat-rust VS book

Bonuses: If you purchase Cloudflare for Speed and Security before November 4, 2023, you'll get my bestseller, Black Hat Rust, for free! Yes, you read it right, two books for less than the price of one!

Hey HN,

I'm so excited to finally share with you what I've been working on recently.

One month ago I asked my audience what they wanted to learn about Websites, APIs and Servers security [0].

From the feedback, I've identified a few recurring pain points that I've started to address (and many more) in this new book.

From theory to practice, you will learn how low-level network and security protocols work. How to configure Cloudflare to secure and scale your web applications. How to create serverless applications and which database to chose with serverless functions. How to optimize your caching policies. How to distribute videos globally. And a lot of other things, all of that while significantly reducing your cloud bill.

Today, the book is far from ready, but I still wanted to release it as "Early Access". First, to enable you to start learning today and, secondly, to garner feedback and refine the book's content.

Between writing, editing, and technical reviewing, it can take some time to complete a book. That's why I release my books before they are fully completed - so you can commence learning before the book is 100% ready, provide feedback, and help shape the content. Rest assured, all future updates are free of charge.

The final publication date is set for mid-January 2024.

Bonuses: If you purchase Cloudflare for Speed and Security before November 4, 2023, you'll get my bestseller, Black Hat Rust [1], for free! Yes, you read it right, two books for less than the price of one!

Furthermore, all early-access supporters will receive the checklist I use to quickly set up a new domain on Cloudflare, ensuring the right balance between security, performance, and user experience.

Lastly, the price is likely to increase once the book transitions out of Early Access, so don't postpone getting your copy.

Sylvain

[0] https://kerkour.com/what-do-you-want-to-learn-about-web-and-...

[1] https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust

The best way I have found to prevent the piracy of my book (https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust) is to inundate pirate platforms with only the first chapter and with a discount inside for those who can't afford the original price.

So far it worked really well.

Black Hat Rust

You mean like this? https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust

As usual, you can find the code on GitHub: github.com/skerkour/black-hat-rust (please don't forget to star the repo 🙏).

This post is an excerpt from my book Black Hat Rust

This is why I dedicated the past months to write a book about the topic: Black Hat Rust - Applied offensive security with the Rust programming language.

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My first port of call was to google learn rust which lead me to "the book". The book is a first steps guide written by the rust community for newbies (or Rustlings as they're called) to gain a 'solid grasp of the language'.

Before Prodzilla, I’d read 'The Book' a couple of times, and had made my way through Rustlings, but hadn’t yet built a serious project in Rust.

To answer your last question;

Start with the Rust book.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

Then do Rustlings until the syntax becomes muscle memory.

Then join the Discord and start doing little projects.

You won’t get up to the proficiency of other languages as quickly in Rust. It takes longer. For me it’s taking a lot longer, but I enjoy it.

Before diving into these repositories, familiarize yourself with Rust and its development ecosystem. The official Rust book is an excellent resource for developers at all levels. Each repository has documentation on how to contribute, covering code style, issue tracking, and pull requests.

This is my third Rust book after the official book and Rust in Action. The other two books are great, but they were too theoretical for me. I'm a slow learner and had much trouble grokking Rust's features and idiosyncrasies. When I was done with these books, I was lost and unsure of what I could do.

It's the same reason everything digital and downloadable isn't free: there's a cost to create it and there's a value to it.

For a language developer to charge for a book about that language, I think that's a completely valid way to make some money off of their work.

Even the Rust book, "The Rust Programming Language" is available freely online [0], but also as a print and ebook for sale via NoStarchPress [1].

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

[1] https://nostarch.com/rust-programming-language-2nd-edition

You know you can just read it online right now in 2 different variants It does contain some systems programming.

I am looking at The Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/), but hoped there was an amazing person on youtube.

Yeah, I'll build something, finally trying webassembly.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/