Develop and Deploy your Mobile API with Ruby on Rails, Nginx, Unicorn and Capistrano

So you are building your awesome sites and apps that you want it to be accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices. Definitely you need a proper backend and application programming interface (API), among others to allow these software components to interact with your core application brain. This session will try to discuss how you could develop your API with the magical Ruby on Rails, run it with mystical Unicorn and Nginx, and managed your deployment via Capistrano. Yes people, we're living in a world full of APIs.

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1. Develop and Deploy Your Mobile API with Capistrano, Unicorn, Ruby on Rails & Nginx @errazudin
2. Develop and Deploy Your Mobile API with Capistrano, Unicorn, Ruby on Rails & Nginx Wait.. What kind of title is this?
3. Develop and Deploy Your Mobile API with CURN @errazudin
4. Agenda What on earth.. For what reason.. So how to do that.. Ok, now what.. Summary
5. About Me Solutions Architect Any-Stack-Dev-Ops … about.me/errazudin
6. Agenda What on earth.. For what reason.. So how to do that.. Ok, now what.. Summary
7. What on earth
8. What on earth
9. What on earth..
10. What on earth
11. What (else) on earth
12. Develop and Deploy Your Mobile API with CURN+RedisVagrantMysqlElasticsearch+ EverythingUnderTheSky? @errazudin Wait.. This Talk Should Be...
13. Agenda What on earth.. For what reason.. So how to do that.. Ok, now what.. Summary
14. For what reason Production Staging/UAT Development
15. For what reason Development
16. "Programmers are like vampires. They're frequently up all night, paler than death itself, and generally afraid of being exposed to daylight. Oh yes, and they tend think of themselves (or at least their code) as immortal." - www.codinghorror.com
17. System Administrators are like werewolves. They may look outwardly ordinary, but are incredibly strong, mostly invulnerable to stuf that would kill regular people -- and prone to strange transformations during a moon "outage". - www.codinghorror.com
18. Developers <3 Sysadmin
19. For what reason Staging/UAT
20. For what reason Production
21. Agenda What on earth.. For what reason.. So how to do that.. Ok, now what.. Summary
22. So how to do that Portable work environments VirtualBox, Vmware, etc Support provisioning tools eg. Chef, Puppet “vagrant up” and you're ready to fly
23. Still not convinced? $ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box $ vagrant init $ vagrant up
24. So how to do that “vagrant ssh” and install your stuf manually package the greatest vagrant box ..and share within your team! .. or use automated provisioning
25. Yay! It's ready, so what are you waiting for dude?
26. The API Used by the various mobile devices (iPhone, Android and Blackberry smartphones) to communicate with the server All communications over https Each request includes authorisation token Responses are in JSON
27. The API Fb login Example API calls: login, create user, get user, get photo, update photo, checkin, messaging, etc
28. Agenda What on earth.. For what reason.. So how to do that.. Ok, now what.. Summary
29. Remember this? Production Staging/UAT Development
30. Ok, Now What Production Staging/UAT
31. Ok, Now What Staging EC2, S3, RDS, SES, SSL
32. Ok, Now What Production EC2, S3, RDS, SES, ELB, SSL, Route53, Pingdom
33. Agenda What on earth.. For what reason.. So how to do that.. Ok, now what.. Summary
34. Don’t pick a tool because <someone> uses it.
35. Evaluate options based on requirements
36. It's good to learn from the big boys..
37. ..but <that-tech> isn't for every application :)
38. References http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ http://rubyonrails.org/ https://rubygems.org/ http://www.capistranorb.com/ http://nimbleworks.co.uk/blog/apis-for-mobile-appl ications/ http://nginx.org/ http://www.elasticsearch.org
39. Moving forward.. http://puma.io http://nadarei.co/mina/ https://puppetlabs.com http://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/ http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
40. Thank you @errazudin errazudin.ishak@gmail.com Thank you