Building Services on and off Rails

SLIDES ATbit.ly/reverb-soa

3 TAKEAWAYS

WHY WRITE SERVICESRECOMMENDED STACK

EMBEDDED VS. STANDALONE

WHY WRITE SERVICESRECOMMENDED STACK

EMBEDDED VS. STANDALONE

WHY WRITE SERVICESRECOMMENDED STACK

EMBEDDED VS. STANDALONE

Yan Pritzker, CTOReverb.com

github.com/skwp @skwp

github.com/reverbdev @reverbdotcom

Yan Pritzker, CTOReverb.com

github.com/skwp @skwp

github.com/reverbdev @reverbdotcom

On Rails since 2005 (0.13.4)

RAILSIS EASY

RAILSIS FUN

RAILSIS BLOATED

STARTUP10-20s

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

MONOLITHS

LOTS OF GEMS

LOTS OF CONTROLLERS

LOTS OF MODELS

LOTS OF LIBS

LOTS OF DOMAIN

SOLUTION?SERVICES

A SERVICE IS...

BITS OF ISOLATED

FUNCTOINALITY

BEHIND A BIG WALL

SPEAKING JSON

WHY?

SCALEYOUR TEAM

SCALEDOWNTIME

SCALEPERFORMANCE

SCALEPRODUCTIVITY

SCALEHAPPINESS

DIVORCE FROM RAILS AND...

FAST SPECS

EXPERIMENTWITH

FRAMEWORKS

EXPERIMENTWITH

LANGUAGES

EXPERIMENTWITH

ARCHITECTURE

OUR STACK

Grape API

Grape API

Roar Representers

Grape API

Roar Representers

application/hal+json

Grape API

Roar Representers

application/hal+json

ActiveRecord

Grape API

Roar Representers

application/hal+json

Or Something Else

DEPLOYMENT?

EMBED IT!

CREATE THE GEM

WRITE GRAPE API

PUT IT ON RAILS

github.com/reverbdev/chimp

Gemified Service Example

EMBEDDINGIS EASY

AND YOU CAN DEVELOP IN ISOLATION

BUT IT’SNOT IDEAL

DEPENDENCY CONFLICTS

CONSTRAINS RUBY VERSION

ADDS TOAPP BLOAT

DEPLOY ITSTANDALONE!

THIN /UNICORN

FOREMAN / UPSTART

MINA / CAPISTRANO

SERVICE SKELETON

github.com/reverbdev/service-skeleton

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