Simple Rust HTTP Server

Created for educational purposes only. This is a rust http file server for vite generated static files.

Topics Learned:

• Rust
• Linux
• Concurrency
  • Hopefully: Atomics
• OpenTelemetry Instrumentation

Replication

The frontend is generated via this script

deno run -RWE npm:create-vite-extra@latest

With these configurations:

# relevant configuration
✔ Select a template: › deno-react
✔ Select a variant: › TypeScript

Backend uses the standard cargo init command.

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Rust

Iteration Abstraction Ownership

• Automatic Drops

Defensive programming.

Stack and Heap Automatic Drops Channels

alternative async

Opentelemetry

Logs, Metrics, Trace

Potential Side Quests:

• Investigate how variables are allocated in rust.
• Create custom channels
  • Socket based
  • Memory Based: for sending signals to child threads, in order of receiving them.
• Do a trace of system calls.(use provided tools, kernel code reads)
• Build an Operating System
• Using io_uring instead of direct syscalls for this.
• Make this production ready.
• Program the kernel:
  • build this server into the kernel
  • Build an in kernel monitoring solution
    • eBPF, straight kernel
  • use eBPF
  • write my own syscall
  • write my own file system (enable poll use on my files, abstract over a popular site i.g. google)