As your application grows in complexity, breaking it up into independent components that communicate over a stable API contract can reduce that complexity into smaller maintainable concerns. Instead of deploying multiple Rails applications, there are leaner alternatives in the Ruby ecosystem such as Middleman and Grape.
We’ll take a look at these tools and strategies for managing configuration and compatibility between different components of a service-oriented-architecture (SOA). Additionally, we’ll cover exactly when SOA is beneficial and how to determine if you should switch to it.
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