Rails Enterprise book critique

In December I took up Enterprise Rails in hopes of learning how to build a proper rails application. It taught me some new things but left other questions unanswered. Here's my thoughts on what we can learn and what we need to look further for.

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1. January 2020 FACY | David Dikman Enterprise Rails by Dan Chak Book critique:
2. Learn to build big applications Goal January 2020 FACY | David Dikman
3. Summary Quick overview January 2020 FACY | David Dikman
4. Aside from introducing SAO only briefly touches on modularity January 2020 DB FOCUS NOT EXHAUSTIVE LITTLE ARCHITECTURE Little detail on many concepts such as dependency injection or testing Almost each chapter touches on database concerns FACY | David Dikman
5. January 2020 FACY | David Dikman Content overview
6. January 2020 Structure SOA REST Caching Database concerns - Normal form - Validation - Constraints - Performance FACY | David Dikman
7. January 2020 The examples aren’t perfect code Double take #1: One letter members and use of old_ FACY | David Dikman
8. January 2020 Sometimes breaking principles Double take #2: Liskovs Substitution principle FACY | David Dikman
9. Separate code based on domains January 2020 On structuring : FACY | David Dikman
10. Constraints in database January 2020 Referential integrity FACY | David Dikman
11. Domain key normal form January 2020 Object orientation for databases FACY | David Dikman
12. Service Oriented Architecture January 2020 Don’t place all your code in one application FACY | David Dikman
13. Caching January 2020 Scale B u t t h a t ʼ s a s t o r y f o r a n o t h e r t i m e FACY | David Dikman
14. January 2020 FACY | David Conclusions
15. January 2020 Outdated Take it with a grain of salt and fact check to see if there are newer, modern solutions/gems FACY | David
16. January 2020 Not perfect Donʼt copy word for word FACY | David
17. January 2020 Still valid Many concepts and solutions are still valid, apply constraints, cache close to the user and structure into services FACY | David
18. January 2020 FACY | David Dikman Next time Caching
19. January 2020 Q & A FACY | David Dikman
20. January 2020 Thank You FACY | David Dikman