Splitting Your App

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Claim: move the model layer into a slim API (Sinatra) and halve the app to get a big performance win and a public API. Implementation details: flexible_api + flexible_api_server and client libraries like constructor.rb (and JS/Objective‑C), git submodules to share model code, rack‑attack for rate limiting, ActiveRecord validations returning 422. Real result: deployed in production, mobile apps and external consumers use it after scaling from 30 to 850 accounts in three months.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:38The Plan
3. 3:57The Age of Innocence
4. 4:41Asian Denial
5. 5:02Relief
6. 5:31Avoid duplicating logic
7. 6:23Flexible API Server
8. 9:06Builder
9. 9:52API Server
10. 11:24Documentation
11. 12:20Constructor
12. 13:58Gate Sub Modules
13. 15:19Issues
14. 16:25Wrapping Up
15. 23:04Benefits
16. 24:08The Constructor

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