[LRUG] Architecture Of Things

[James McCarthy]

Hi Zoltan,

I’m not going to try to answer all the questions, but a good set of blog posts to read are http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/06/soundcloud-microservices <http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/06/soundcloud-microservices>

J.

> On 25 Sep 2015, at 19:53, Zoltan Biber <zoltan.biber at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I’m working with Ruby / Rails for about 1.5 years now, loving the language, the framework and the open source world but as I work on a complex app at my job
> it is always the stack/architecture of things that can be difficult to master (e.g. the order in which code is executed in the stack). Would be keen to hear some opinions from fellow LRUG-ers:
> 
> 1. Can you suggest a good book on Software Engineering / Software Architecture suitable as a first read on the topic? 
>    Fresh stuff that is up-do-date with SOA,Microservices and Cloud Computing would be great.
>    It looks to me that the above have (completely) changed the ballgame but I might be wrong and the core fundamentals are absolutely the same?
>    Bonus: Is there a good book covering s. architecture built around Ruby/Rails? Or is that clashing with the generalist (language agnostic) approach of s.engineering?     
>    I tend to find loads of tutorials that tell you WHAT to do and HOW but not so much about the WHY (in the grand scheme of things).
> 
> 2. How did any of you guys transition from a newbie to that engineer level stating the year when you started from zero and education.
>    Here we have to distinguish between people starting web development in the ‘old days’ and ’nowadays’ because
>    in the old days people had the pain of not having the plethora of tools/documentation/tutorials available today but also the luxury of learning a 
>    new tool/technology incrementally as the number of moving parts was much less and new tools were not released by minute.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Zoltan
> 
> 
> 
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