Conventions Between Applications

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A three‑and‑a‑half year effort builds a distributed Rails system of 18 Rails applications with a shared directory encoded in the atlas gem (protobuf schemas) for resource ownership and versioned API contracts. Events go over RabbitMQ with an internal publisher and action_subscriber for Rails‑style subscribers to decouple services; trebuchet performs chunked rolling deploys so teams deploy many small changes with near zero downtime. Concrete tools and semantics are proven in production.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:47Sample Project
3. 4:03Atlas - The Directory
4. 13:45Events
5. 22:264 Tasks???
6. 23:46Deployment Costs
7. 24:37Zero-Downtime Matters
8. 25:58Trebuchet

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