Karuna Murti - Rust Web Development with Rocket: A practical guide to starting your journey in Rust web development using the Rocket framework

A practical guide to starting your journey in Rust web development using the Rocket framework

Karuna Murti

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To my family, Ing, Ping, and Ling, for their 7 years of patience. To my mom, Tjong Njoek Fa, who always supported me. To my dad, Lestoro, who introduced me to the wonderful world of books, reading, and writing.

Karuna Murti

Karuna Murti started out as a network engineer in Indonesia back in 2005. After that, he continued his career as a web developer, engineering manager, and chief engineer at a consulting company, using various languages such as PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Fortran, and Python. He also worked with web applications and frameworks such as Magento, WordPress, and Ruby on Rails. In 2015, after establishing his own consulting company, he moved to Japan and now works as a technical lead at Merpay, one of the leading mobile payment apps in Japan. He is helping the company to build a cashless society by leading a team that connects millions of users with thousands of financial institutions in Japan. Even though he uses Go as the main language in his day job, Rust and Rocket have been a passion of his ever since their release.

I want to thank Tomohiro Kato for checking the outline of this book. Many thanks to Robert Jerovek for reviewing this book.

Robert Jerovek is an experienced software engineer who enjoys challenges and has built various types of applications, ranging from mobile to web, but with a particular focus on developing robust backend systems for fast-growing services. He also has experience in management and is currently working as an engineering manager in Japan. Previously, he worked as a unit lead in South Korea and was the CTO of an EdTech start-up in Spain.