Course Description

Rust doesn’t have to be an all or nothing proposition. Rust is very good at sliding into an existing platform, allowing you to focus on optimizing – both for speed and safety – the parts that matter without throwing away all of your existing hard work.

Course Outline

• Introducing FFI, the Foreign Function Interface.
• Consuming a C library from Rust:
• From C to Rust:
• Calling Go from Rust
• Building a Rust FFI Crate
• Consume the Rust crate from C
• Consume the Rust crate from Go
• Managing Your Build Process – Practical Observations
• Porting Parts to Rust
• Build an HTTP authentication service with Actix in under 200 lines of Rust.
• Build an efficient, binary protocol server with Tokio.
• Combining asynchronous high-performance I/O with CPU-bound computation.
• Event tracing
• Use a Unikernel to host a Rust service as a single-purpose virtual machine.
• Use WebAssembly (WASM) to host high-performance code in the browser.
• Build without a standard library for embedded targets