Eguia Moraza - Rust high performance: learn to skyrocket the performance of your Rust applications

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Iban Eguia Moraza is a passionate Rust developer. He has a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in information and communication security. He has over 10 years of experience in web development, and since 2015, he has been developing Rust applications.

Iban loves space exploration and the latest technologies. In this regard, he has developed open source software for stratospheric balloons from the ground up, and he now works at the CERN particle physics laboratory. He likes to travel to learn from the most experienced people.

Daniel Durante is an avid coffee drinker/roaster, motorcyclist, archer, welder, and carpenter whenever he isn't programming. From the age of 12, he has been involved with web and embedded programming with PHP, Node.js, Golang, Rust, and C.

He has worked on text-based browser games that have reached over 1,000,000 active players, created bin-packing software for CNC machines, embedded programming with cortex-m and PIC circuits, high-frequency trading applications, and helped contribute to one of the oldest ORMs of Node.js (SequelizeJS).

He has also reviewed the following books for Packt:

• PostgresSQL Developer's Guide
• PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
• Rust Programming By Example

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Welcome to Rust High Performance. In this book, you will get a gentle introduction to high-performance programming by learning how to improve the performance of your Rust code. It will show you how to translate your code from other languages properly by avoiding common bottlenecks, and it will show you how to easily increase the performance of your application using some idiomatic Rust APIs.

You will learn about the great Rust community by finding great crates that will increase the development efficiency while also improving the performance of your application, and you will write examples to use all your knowledge. You will write your own macros and custom derives, and you will learn about asynchronous and multithreaded programming.

In this book, you will find everything you need to improve the performance of your Rust code; you will learn many tricks and use helpful crates and tools. Therefore, the book is written from the basis that you already have some knowledge of programming in Rust.

This book will not cover the whole world of high-performance programming since it's an incredibly wide topic. You will find a gentle introduction to most of the generic high-performance programming concepts and learn how specific patterns can be used in the Rust programming language.

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