Building a Web Application with Rust
summary
A Rust web comment service is built using Actix-web on Tokio for the server, Serde for typed request extraction, Diesel with SQLite and r2d2 for persistence, html5ever for HTML sanitization, an SMTP client for notifications, Prometheus metrics, and structured logging. The talk presents concrete implementation details, notes Rust’s ecosystem size (~20k crates, 608M downloads), and mentions the app runs locally as a small statically linked image (~8 MB) though full deployment to the target server is not yet finished.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Rust for web
- 2:29Rust history
- 6:20Learning Rust
- 9:53Choosing Rust project
- 11:21Rust architecture
- 15:32Cargo dependencies
- 18:24Rust code setup
- 23:36Actix web benefits
- 29:22Diesel database
- 31:25Logging
- 33:55Request tracing
- 35:39Prometheus monitoring
- 37:46Lightweight Docker images
- 39:49Conclusion
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