Going through the Zero to Prod in Rust book

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.