Abhishek Chanda - Network Programming with Rust

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Abhishek Chanda studied computer science at IIEST Shibpur in India and electrical engineering at Rutgers University. He has lived and worked in multiple countries, working on distributed systems since 2008 at big companies such as Microsoft as well as a number smaller start-ups. Currently, he is working with DataSine in London, where he is responsible for the scalable deployment of infrastructure powering the backend systems of the DataSine platform. He contributes to a number of open source projects, including Rust.

Pradeep R is a software professional at Gigamon. He is a technology enthusiast passionate about network programing and security, with wide experience in working on leading enterprise network switching and routing solutions and in development and deployment of traditional network security elements. Currently, he is working on next-generation network pervasive visibility solutions.

He extensively works with C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Perl, and occasionally with Java, .NET, and Rust. Pradeep has recently reviewed Rust Cookbook.

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Rust has steadily become one of the most important new programming languages in recent years. Like C or C++, Rust enables the developer to write code that is low-level enough to make Rust code quickly. And since Rust is memory-safe by design, it does not allow code that can crash on a null pointer exception. These properties make it a natural choice for writing low-level networking applications. This book will enable developers to get started with writing networking applications with Rust.

This book's target audience is a software engineer who is interested in writing networking software using Rust.

, Introduction to Client/Server Networking, starts the book with a gentle introduction to computer networking from the ground up. This includes IP addressing, TCP/UDP, and DNS. This forms the basis of our discussions in later chapters.

, Introduction to Rust and its Ecosystem, contains an introduction to Rust. This is an overall introduction that should be good enough to get the reader started. We do assume some familiarity with programming.

, TCP and UDP Using Rust, dives into using Rust for networking. We start with basic socket programming using the standard library. We then look at some crates from the ecosystem that can be used for network programming.

, Data Serialization, Deserialization, and Parsing, explains that an important aspect of networked computing is handling data. This chapter is an introduction to serializing and deserializing data using Serde. We also look at parsing using nom and other frameworks.

, Application Layer Protocols, moves up a layer to look at protocols that operate above TCP/IP. We look at a few crates to work with, such as RPC, SMTP, FTP, and TFTP.