I recently updated an older Rust project (termdex, a terminal-based Pokédex) to use the latest package versions. Here’s what I ran into and how I fixed it.

The Starting Point

The project was using older versions of most dependencies:

How can you make your python server fast? One method is through using the Linux system call epoll. Epoll is an I/O event notification system that monitors file descriptors of I/O events.

In your first foray into writing python http servers you will likely encounter or write a simple program as seen below: