Microservices Development Cookbook

How to do it...

Refactoring any code base is a process. For monoliths, there are a few techniques that can work quite well. In this example, we'll document the steps that can be taken to make refactoring a Ruby on Rails code base easy:

1. Using the techniques described in previous recipes, identify business capabilities and bounded contexts within your application. Let's focus on the ability to upload pictures and videos. 

 

2. Create a directory called app/services alongside controllers, models, and views. This directory will hold all of your service objects. Service objects are a pattern used in many Rails applications to factor out a conceptual service into a ruby object that does not inherit any Ruby on Rails functionality. This will make ...