Lightweight Web Services

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Argues that breaking a monolith into tiny HTTP services avoids Rails boilerplate by using Sinatra and simple tools, showing a real blog at ~20–30 lines, GetWiki at 355 lines (including views), and a metrics service RiffGraph at 61 lines that stores its own DB and serves graphs; client-side RestClient acts like an interactive curl with logging and a console; GitHub Services handles post-receive hooks for over 5,000 users with just a few mongrels; CouchDB and Heroku clients are implemented easily via Rack/HTTP.

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" chapters (15)

1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:29Web Services
3. 5:32Sinatra
4. 9:22Sinatra Features
5. 10:17Sinatra Commitment to Small
6. 11:51Sinatra is a Ruby Citizen
7. 13:26Git Wiki
8. 14:31Inline Templates
9. 17:26GetUp Services
10. 19:33Active Resource
11. 22:08Reverse Sinatra
12. 24:15Examples
13. 26:15Principles
14. 34:18Sinatra Documentation
15. 38:03Sinatra Roadmap

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