Everybody is talking about microservices, but I haven’t seen a lot of good, comprehensive descriptions of how to actually write a microservice in Ruby. This may be because a significant number of Ruby developers are still most comfortable with Rails...
Read more...In a project I was working on, we wanted to split the big monolith application we had into several smaller repositories. In particular, we wanted the user-facing part of our application to be completely separate from the administrative backend. This is all nice and well, but then we had to consider how we can still make sure that jobs such as sending email are properly enqueued and executed. Since we were using Sidekiq, which just runs atop of a Redis store, this is not hard to do in principle: You just put some items in your queue from one repository and read from that same queue in the other repository.