RailsConfEurope: Intellectual Scalability
After the lunch (which was very good, just as yesterda) I followed a session with the title Intellectual Scalability – Solving a Large Problem With Multiple Cooperating Rails Apps by Frederick Cheung and Paul Butcher of Texperts.
Interesting idea of dividing up a complex application into several simpler applications. The applications run on their own servers and have their own database. Applications communicate on the back-end via RESTful API’s, on the front-end they communicate via AJAX. All applications are “widgets” loaded by AJAX calls. Works a bit like a portal.
The company that the speakers work for (Textpert) want to opensource their framework. Might be interesting when they do. Their solution seems to be a bit javascript heavy they, which might be a problem for some webapplications (e.g. if they need to be accessible).
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Slides: will be published on conference site
