176 RR Rails as an SOA Client with Pete Hodgson

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03:02 – Pete Hodgson Introduction

• ThoughtWorks
• Martin Fowler
• The iPhreaks Show

03:48 – Pete Hodgson: Rails as an SOA Client

• [Slides] Pete Hodgson: Rails as an SOA Client

05:27 – Conway’s Law and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Team Boundaries
• Testing Boundaries Between Teams
• The Shape of an Organization
• How the Shape of an Architecture Can Play Together or Interfere with Each Other
• Codependence vs Independence
• Decoupling of Teams

14:03 – Faking Out Services / Contract Tests

• Martin Fowler: Consumer-Driven Contracts: A Service Evolution Pattern
• Maintaining the Fakes
• Shim
• Gems
  • pact
  • pacto
  • vcr
  • webmock
• In-process vs Out of Process
• Facilitating Communication Between Teams
  • Diversity
  • Algorithmic Efficiency
• Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble

29:04 – faraday

• rack
• middleware – (i.e: lenses / filters)

32:47 – faraday and SOA

• Hexagonal Architecture
• Service Gateways
  • Testing in Isolation
• Staging Environment
• Shared Dev Environments

40:41 – Feature Flags (aka Feature Toggles)

• Extreme Deployment
  • Ruby Rogues Episode #172: Extreme Deployment with Badri Janakiraman and Florian Motlik

44:15 – Caching

• Segmentation by Freshness

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