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Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails
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Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails

by Paul Dix
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 17m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2. An Introduction to Service-Oriented Design

Service-oriented design is about creating systems that group functionality around logical function and business practices. Services should be designed to be interoperable and reusable. The goal of service-oriented design is to split up the parts of an application or system into components that can be iterated on, improved, and fixed without having to test and verify all the other components when an individual is updated. Achieving these goals usually entails a trade-off between complexity and iteration speed. However, large and mature applications are ill-served when built in Rails monolithic style. It is necessary to segment complex or large applications into parts that can be tested and ...

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