Building Services On and Off Rails

How to build JSON services using Ruby, Grape, and Roar, and how to operationalize them by embedding them inside of Rails apps or running them standalone.

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1. Building Services on and off Rails
2. SLIDES AT bit.ly/reverb-soa
3. 3 TAKEAWAYS
4. WHY WRITE SERVICES RECOMMENDED STACK EMBEDDED VS. STANDALONE
5. WHY WRITE SERVICES RECOMMENDED STACK EMBEDDED VS. STANDALONE
6. WHY WRITE SERVICES RECOMMENDED STACK EMBEDDED VS. STANDALONE
7. Yan Pritzker, CTO Reverb.com github.com/skwp @skwp github.com/reverbdev @reverbdotcom
8. Yan Pritzker, CTO Reverb.com github.com/skwp @skwp github.com/reverbdev @reverbdotcom On Rails since 2005 (0.13.4)
10. RAILS IS EASY
11. RAILS IS FUN
12. RAILS IS BLOATED
13. STARTUP 10-20s
14. HOW DID WE GET HERE?
15. MONOLITHS
16. LOTS OF GEMS
17. LOTS OF CONTROLLERS
18. LOTS OF MODELS
19. LOTS OF LIBS
20. LOTS OF DOMAIN
21. SOLUTION? SERVICES
22. A SERVICE IS...
23. BITS OF ISOLATED FUNCTOINALITY
24. BEHIND A BIG WALL
25. SPEAKING JSON
26. WHY?
27. SCALE YOUR TEAM
28. SCALE DOWNTIME
29. SCALE PERFORMANCE
30. SCALE PRODUCTIVITY
31. SCALE HAPPINESS
32. DIVORCE FROM RAILS AND...
33. FAST SPECS
34. EXPERIMENT WITH FRAMEWORKS
35. EXPERIMENT WITH LANGUAGES
36. EXPERIMENT WITH ARCHITECTURE
37. OUR STACK
38. Grape API
39. Grape API Roar Representers
40. Grape API Roar Representers application/hal+json
41. Grape API Roar Representers application/hal+json ActiveRecord
42. Grape API Roar Representers application/hal+json Or Something Else
43. DEPLOYMENT?
44. EMBED IT!
45. CREATE THE GEM
46. WRITE GRAPE API
47. PUT IT ON RAILS
48. github.com/reverbdev/chimp Gemified Service Example
49. EMBEDDING IS EASY
50. AND YOU CAN DEVELOP IN ISOLATION
51. BUT IT’S NOT IDEAL
52. DEPENDENCY CONFLICTS
53. CONSTRAINS RUBY VERSION
54. ADDS TO APP BLOAT
55. DEPLOY IT STANDALONE!
56. THIN / UNICORN
57. FOREMAN / UPSTART
58. MINA / CAPISTRANO
59. REVERB STANDALONE SERVICE SKELETON github.com/reverbdev/service-skeleton
60. We’re Hiring! Rubyists/iOS/ Musicians