black-hat-rust VS Tide

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

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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

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Rust has several, production ready, REST API frame works.

Rust allows me to mainly only run the application to confirm things work from a business perspective.

For people starting out building stuff in rust - understand that there is a distinction of async code and libraries and can lead to confusing compiler errors if you don't realize there is a distinction. It's simple in hindsight but did cause me to waste hours barking up the wrong trees at first. Other wise just learn about `match` and Result/Option types asap, they're fundamental.

https://github.com/http-rs/tide tide is great to create an http server / routes

https://github.com/djc/askama I use this to template out HTML and it checks all my boxes, dynamic data, passing in functions, control flow.

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sql interface for a variety of backend, async safe.

https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest http client to make requests

Rust is amazing, don't let the initial few speed bumps discourage you - building real things with rust is no more challenging today than any other modern language stack.

https://crates.io/crates/salvo - 581k all time and peak daily of ~2750 in last few months https://crates.io/crates/rocket - 2.68mil all-time / ~6200 daily https://crates.io/crates/actix-web - 9.8mil all-time / ~21k daily https://crates.io/crates/axum - 8.8mil all-time / 64k daily https://crates.io/crates/warp - 7.9mil all-time and 19k daily https://crates.io/crates/tide - 886k all-time / 2250 daily

Hi, guys, how you doing? I'm trying out this web framework Tide just to make a toy project and learn more about Rust. The create_payment_handler function is called by the framework whenever there is a POST request to /payment/ containing a JSON body with the payment information.

tide

I'm developing the backend of https://www.cozydate.com/ in Rust. Async Rust is not productive yet, so I tried rouille http server which lets me write non-async request handlers. Unfortunately, it uses an unbounded thread pool and falls down under load https://github.com/tiny-http/tiny-http/issues/221 . Then I tried Tide and a threadpool to call my non-async API handlers. This worked, but was really ugly, and I had issues with uploads after deploying to Heroku https://github.com/http-rs/tide/issues/878 .

You could also habe a look at tide apparently it is stable and production ready.