Battle of the Serverless — Part 2: AWS Lambda Cold Start Times
This experiment continues the work done in our pretend suite of microservices exposed via API Gateway to form an API with a code name of Slipspace in a mock company called STG. Slipspace drives are how...
View ArticleOsgood is a secure, fast, and simple platform for running JavaScript HTTP...
Osgood is a secure, fast, and simple platform for running JavaScript HTTP servers. It is written using Rust and V8. Services written today share a common flaw: Being over-privileged. Osgood is an...
View ArticleWasmtime — a small and efficient runtime for WebAssembly & WASI
Wasmtime is a standalone wasm-only optimizing runtime for WebAssembly and WASI, using Cranelift. It runs WebAssembly code outside of the Web, and can be used both as a command-line utility or as a...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure by default, composable...
Today we announce the formation of the Bytecode Alliance, a new industry partnership coming together to forge WebAssembly’s outside-the-browser future by collaborating on implementing standards and...
View ArticleScrapyroo: how I was unhappy about Deliveroo search and implemented my own
I was unhappy about Deliveroo's search interface and built my own using some web scraping, indexing with Tantivy search library and a bit of React on frontend.
View ArticleMulti-Value All The Wasm!
Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a pre-requisite for Wasm interface types.I’ve been adding...
View ArticleBuilding Powerful GraphQL Servers with Rust
Setting up a GraphQL server with Rust, Juniper, Diesel, and Actix; learning about Rust's web frameworks and powerful macros along the way.
View ArticleTide 0.4.0
Today we're happy to announce the release of Tide 0.4.0 which has an exciting new design. This post will (briefly) cover some of the exciting developments around Tide, and where we're heading.
View ArticleLet's make a simple authentication server in Rust with Warp
This is a very simple authentication server but I hope this post gave you the building blocks needed to expand it for your own needs. I strongly recommend taking a look at the warp documentation and if...
View Articlehttp v0.2
A couple years ago, we released the beginning of the http crate. It’s purpose was to allow a common API for the ecosystem to interact with HTTP types, without those types referring to a specific...
View ArticleFun with Rust and distributed systems
In this post, I will start to talk about the exciting technical stuff around Paddlers. If you haven’t read my other posts (#0, #1, #2), Paddlers is a game in which your goal is to make ducks happy. As...
View Articlehyper v0.13
After a few months of alpha development, the final release of hyper v0.13.0 is now ready!
View ArticleService Workers with Rust+WASM for Image Manipulation on the Edge
Using a Rust image manipulation library via WebAssembly, service workers can manipulate images on the fly. You can see a simple example of the code here and a fully-fledged example here.
View ArticleMeuse alternate cargo registry 0.3.0 released
I’ve just released the version 0.3.0 of Meuse, an alternative registry for the Rust programming language.
View ArticleA simple ping library, parsing strings into IPv4 address
We’ve just spent a lot of time abstracting over LoadLibrary, but we still have all the gory details of the Win32 ICMP API straight in our main.rs file! That won’t do.This time will be much quicker,...
View ArticleAwait Trust-DNS no longer
A review of preparing Trust-DNS for async/await in RustWhat started as a brief sojourn to learn the new std::future::Future in Rust 1.36, slowly became a journey to fully adopt the new async/await...
View ArticlePorting a React+Redux JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
We will demonstrate how to do a complete port of a web application from React+Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust. This is the first part of a blog post series.
View ArticleServerless Rust using WASM and Cloudflare
I originally wrote Sorta Secret a year ago in Rust using actix-web and deployed it, like most services we write at FP Complete, to our Kubernetes cluster. When Rust 1.39 was released with async/await...
View ArticleClient-side Observations about Web Service Technologies: Using Apache Bench
This is the third post in a series of posts exploring web services related technologies.With the web service implementations in place, I evaluated them using an off-the-shelf benchmarking tool. This...
View ArticleRocket and Multipart forms
Recently I've been working on a rust web service written using Rocket and Diesel. A big issue I came across was handling muitpart forms (AKA content-type: multipart/form-data). Rocket doesn't support...
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