Enterprise Rails - big picture

Chap 1 - Big picture

Some criteria make a site feel like it's enterprise.

• service level agreement(SLA) for end-to-end load times.

• 99.99%(four nines) uptime.

• Scales linearly.

• fault tolerant.

DBA = database administrator Release engineer = manage release / create deployment plans / roll out IT = information technology engineer: store backup / logfiles

1. Growing

# 1. basic
DB ----- Rails app

# 2. basic + failover & redundency
DB ----- Rails app ----- Load balancer
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Warnm standby DB

# 3. A front-end web backed by services
DB --- service A --- Load balancer ---
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Warnm standby DB                     |--- Front-end --- Load balancer
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DB --- service B --- Load balancer ---
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Warnm standby DB