brushknight / Ardan-NR-2023-07

Rust Workshop - New Relic

Presented by Ardan Labs

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Requirements

• Rust installed via RustUp
• Git installed and working
• Basic Rust knowledge - variables, functions, control flow, etc.

Outline

• Day 1
  • Introduction
  • Rust Setup
  • Ownership & Borrowing - Concepts
  • Ownership & Borrowing - Sharing Data
  • Understanding Traits
• Day 2
  • Concurrency & Parallelism
  • System Threads
  • Green Threads and Async
  • Tokio
  • Blocking
  • Channels, and talking to Threads
  • Build a Web Service in 20 Minutes
  • High-Performance File Streaming and Processing
  • Calling External Programs
• Day 3
  • Databases
  • Dependency Injection and Shared State in Axum Services
  • Error Handling
  • Unit Testing
  • Tracing
  • Benchmarking
• Day 4
  • Best Practices: Tooling
    • Formatting
    • Clippy (the linter)
    • Documentation
    • Understanding Dependencies
    • Managing Your Own Dependencies
    • Checking for Vulnerabilities
    • Check for Outdated Dependencies
    • Denying Dependencies by License
    • Build Profiles and Smaller Binaries
  • Code Best Practices
    • Favor Iterators
    • Minimize Cloning
    • Don't Emulate OOP
    • Don't Reference Count Everything
    • Favor Small Functions
    • Clever Code
    • Let the Type System Help You
    • Floating Point Numbers
    • Platform- and Feature- Specific Code
  • General Best Practices
    • TANSTAAFL: There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
    • YAGNI: You Aint Gonna Need It
    • Domain Boundaries and Network Calls
    • Taming Compile Times
  • QA
  • Wrap-Up