Chapter 6. Connecting to Services
Connecting to services is a fairly easy task, but there are some things to consider when running in a production environment. This chapter discusses blocking I/O, parallelism, and how to tackle these problems in Ruby 1.8, 1.9, and JRuby. It also covers how to gather performance statistics to ensure that service owners are meeting requirements. Finally, examples show how to test and mock service calls and methods for running in development mode.
Blocking I/O, Threading, and Parallelism
One of the core requirements for creating a working services architecture is the ability to run requests in parallel. Without parallelism, you’d be unable to make more than a couple service calls within the client’s request/response ...
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