Rails services in the walled garden

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Built a suite of nine+ Rails services that integrate over HTTP and XML to automate data centers, handling roughly 30,000 requests/hour on a single service. The team uses OAuth2 for stateless auth, replaces ActiveResource where it blocks headers or caching, adds a box_pagination extension for collection metadata, and avoids sharing writable databases by creating read-only local caches updated via events or a message bus like RabbitMQ. The approach proves workable with careful caching, pagination, and centralized tooling.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:08Advantages of Using Soa versus Building a Monolithic Application
3. 5:08Disadvantages of Building Service Oriented Architecture
4. 6:15Continuous Integration
5. 10:23Authentication
6. 14:15Authorization
7. 20:08Pagination
8. 21:03Http Headers
9. 27:44Callback Uris
10. 32:10Guidelines

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