Thorsten Hans
Tales and stories about Cloud-Native computing, Serverless, Containers, Azure and Kubernetes
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A comprehensive guide on authoring plugins for Fermyon Spin
Learn and understand how you can build plugins for Fermyon Spin by exploring the check-for-update plugin.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to use pattern matching
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we will look at pattern matching in Rust.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to share state between threads
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we explore how to share state between multiple threads.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to write a function-like macro
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to create a simple function-like macro in Rust.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to write an HTTP API with Actix
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to build a simple HTTP API using the popular Actix crate.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Implement the Builder Pattern
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to implement the builder pattern for creating new instances of a custom struct
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Implement a Generic Stack
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to implement a generic stack in Rust leveraging the Rust standard library
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Retrieve Image Dimensions
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to retrieve the dimensions of an image (either PNG or JPEG) in Rust using the image crate
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to create a TCP Server
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we tale a look at building a simple TCP-Echo Server
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Implement Binary Search
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to implement a binary search in combination with generics and pattern matching only leveraging Rust standard library
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Read a CSV File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to read different CSV files in Rust using the csv crate
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How to use Azure Cosmos DB as a key-value store for Fermyon Spin
Fermyon Spin now supports using Azure Cosmos DB as key-value store for your Spin apps. This article explains how to get it up and running in no time!
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Compute a SHA256 Hash of a File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to compute a SHA256 hash of a file
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Download an Image to a File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we download an image from the web and store it in a file
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Get all Files in a Directory
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we look at how to build a vector containing all file names of a particular directory
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A First Glance at the Spin Router for Rust
With Fermyon Spin 1.1, Spin SDKs for Rust and GoLang come built-in routers for HTTP apps. This article demonstrates how to use the new router in Rust to layout a full-fledged HTTP API.
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Let's build a HTTP router for Spin with Rust
In this post, we will build a HTTP router in Rust using enums and pattern matching to address more sophisticated routing scenarios in single component Spin apps.
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Let Spin lift your key-value store
This article demonstrates how to leverage the built-in key-value store in Fermyon Spin by building an URL shortener.
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CRUD in WebAssembly with Fermyon Spin and MySQL
This post demonstrates how to persist data in MySQL when building cloud-native applications with Fermyon Spin. Leveraging the Spin SDK for Rust.
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Master configuration data in Fermyon Spin
Learn how to use sensitive and non-sensitive configuration data in Fermyon Spin. Pull secrets from HashiCorp Vault, and read configuration data from components written in Rust.
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Building Microservices With WebAssembly and Fermyon Spin
WebAssembly will change the way we architecture cloud-native applications. Start your WebAssembly journey on the server and in the cloud with Fermyon Spin
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Let's build a gRPC server and client in Rust with tonic
In this article, we will build a gRPC server and client from scratch using Rust and tonic
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Check if your application is running in a Docker container
See how to check if your application runs inside of a Docker container or not. This post shows how to do it with no 3rd party deps. Samples in Go and Rust
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Distribute WebAssembly modules as OCI artifacts
Read how to leverage Azure Container Registry (ACR), to distribute WebAssembly (Wasm) modules as OCI artifacts.
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How to Build CLIs in Rust with StructOpt
Learn the basics of StructOpt and build tailored Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) in Rust.