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Rust basics • HTTP basics
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HTTP API with warp and reqwest • async Rust basics
Claus Matzinger
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · BEGINNER
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You’re the star developer for Future Finance Labs, a fintech scaleup whose partner consultants are so happy with the prototype of an exchange platform you’ve built that some of them have brought a trading firm on board. Your task is to extend your prototype to include a platform for trading futures that the firm would like to offer its clients. You’ll lay the web project foundation by moving the Rust code for the existing matching engine to a shared library, adding a skeleton project for the web server, and creating a Cargo workspace. You’ll set up a warp web service to interact with the trading platform, add JSON serialization to your types, and use asynchronous Rust programming to create handler functions. Then you’ll upgrade the existing command line interface to connect with your new service instead of the local variant via REST. When you’re finished, you’ll have built a complete Rust HTTP API that will be a blueprint for additional Rust web services, small and large.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

project author

Claus Matzinger

Claus Matzinger is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in a variety of technologies. In his current role at DEX Labs, Claus is a full-time Rustacean in the crypto world. Previously at Microsoft, Claus helped customers solve their biggest challenges by implementing solutions ranging from machine learning pipelines to cloud native architecture for large-scale data processing. His previous books and blog can be found at X5FF.

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  • Basic finance: phrases and terms (for example, “signer” and “debit”)

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