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Taming large Rails apps with Mutations

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September 02, 2015
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Taming large Rails apps with Mutations

A lightning talk that I gave at Full Stack Fest

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September 02, 2015
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Transcript

  1. Taming large Rails apps with Mutations @gavinjoyce

  2. We're on a mission to make internet business personal.

  3. Mutations

  4. DB Controller View Model

  5. DB Controller View Client Application Model

  6. DB Controller View Ember.js App Model iOS App iOS SDK

    Android App Android SDK Customer Apps

  7. DB Controller Ember.js App Model iOS App iOS SDK Android

    App Android SDK Customer Apps

  8. DB API Ember.js App Model iOS App iOS SDK Android

    App Android SDK Customer Apps

  9. DB Ember.js App Model iOS App iOS SDK Android App

    Android SDK Customer Apps Mobile APIs Ember APIs Public APIs v1 v2 v3

  10. MySQL Ember.js App Model iOS App iOS SDK Android App

    Android SDK Customer Apps Mobile APIs Ember APIs Public APIs v1 v2 v3 DynamoDB Mongo Memcached Redis

  11. MySQL Ember.js App 100+ Models iOS App iOS SDK Android

    App Android SDK Customer Apps Mobile APIs Ember APIs Public APIs v1 v2 v3 DynamoDB Mongo Memcached Redis

  12. Ember.js App 100+ Models iOS App iOS SDK Android App

    Android SDK Customer Apps Mobile APIs Ember APIs Public APIs v1 v2 v3 DB

  13. Ember.js App 100+ Models iOS App iOS SDK Android App

    Android SDK Customer Apps API DB

  14. Client 100+ Models API DB

  15. 100+ Models API DB

  16. 100+ Models DB

  17. 200+ Models DB Large surface area Callback hell Brittle Problematic

    with 40+ Engineers

  18. Mutations

  19. None
  20. None

  21. 100+ Models DB

  22. Models DB Internal API We use mutations to create REST

    like internal interfaces to our core services

  23. Models DB

  24. Models DB User API

  25. Models DB User API Message API

  26. Models DB User API Message API Conversation API

  27. Models DB User API Message API Conversation API These are

    logically decoupled

  28. Models DB User API Message API Conversation API Mobile APIs

    Ember APIs Public APIs v1 v2 v3

  29. Models DB User API Message API Conversation API Mobile APIs

    Ember APIs Public APIs v1 v2 v3 We also use mutations to define our external APIs

  30. Rails App Models DB User API Message API Conversation API

    Ember.js App iOS App iOS SDK Android App Android SDK Customer Apps Mobile APIs Ember APIs Public APIs v1 v2 v3

  31. If you have any questions... @gavinjoyce

  32. Thanks for listening! @gavinjoyce