Network Programming with Rust

Introduction to Client/Server Networking

This book is an introduction to writing networking applications in Rust. This title begs two questions: why should anyone care about networking? And why would anyone want to write networking applications in Rust? We attempt to answer the first question in this chapter. We will introduce Rust and network programming using Rust in subsequent chapters. Firstly, in this chapter, we will start with a bit of history and try to understand how network architecture evolved over the last hundred years. In subsequent sections, we will see how modern networks are layered and addressed. Afterwards, we will describe common service models used in networking. We will end with a summary of networking-related programming ...