Microservices with Rust and Tokio

February 2, 2023

Slides and Materials for a workshop on how to write microservices in Rust.

Workshop Contents:

Introduction to Tokio
- Asynchronous Rust in-depth
- Tokio as a library and ecosystem
- Using channels
- Helper macros like select! and join!
Axum from the ground up
- Custom Handlers
- Global State
- FromRequest and IntoResponse
- Extractors
Custom Tower services for Axum
- Logging
- Timeouts
- Working with tower_http
Tracing and Monitoring
- Instrumenting
- Async gotchas
- Open Telemetry
Builds and Deployments

Each chapter concludes with tasks for the audience.

Target audience: People with familiarity in Rust and basic networking (TCP, HTTP; knowing what a web-server does).

Expected workshop duration: full-day, 2-day

Resources

Custom Logging Layer
An Axum Server with a custom logging layer. Includes pinning of boxes
Lambda, Hyper, conversion services
Tower Services to convert from Lambda or HTTP to an event handler
Microservices in Rust Workshop Materials
A GitHub repo with tests to learn developing Rust Microservices