Ongoing review for the book:
Currently I have covered a really large portion of the book regarding building a backend web service.
Throughout the exercises, you do also get onto building something that is production grade heavy, and hosted in Digital Ocean.
Various important topics which I have covered so far are:
- Safely handling secrets,
- encryption,
- tracing,
- App logging and telemetry.
- dealing with errors,
The book expects a fairly intermediate understanding of Rust. Throughout the exercises, I would just have https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ on my side at all times. I am not the best in Rust, and I am mostly a front end developer, however, I do have a lot of fun learning Rust, and using rust for more lower level problems.
Understanding the core principles in Rust is also transferrable to other languages.
- Makes me write better tests
- Makes me understand race conditions better, and how to structure code correctly in the first place.
- In Rust there is a lot of new things, and a lot of times you must build things yourself to get going.