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Preface; The Tale of Twitter; Speed Versus Scalability; What to Expect in This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: The Big Picture;
1.1 What Is Enterprise?;
1.2 Growing Slowly;
1.3 Understanding All the Pieces;
Chapter 2: Organizing with Plugins;
2.1 Benefits;
2.2 Writing Your Own Plugins;
2.3 Deployment;
Chapter 3: Organizing with Modules;
3.1 Files and Directories;
3.2 Module Boundaries for Namespacing;
3.3 Exercises;
3.4 Refactor Steps;
Chapter 4: Database As a Fortress;
4.1 Your Database Is an Application, Too;
4.2 Sit Atop the Shoulders of Giants;
4.3 Operations and Reporting;
Chapter 5: Building a Solid Data Model;
5.1 Theatre Tickets;
Chapter 6: Refactoring to Third Normal Form;
6.1 Third Normal Form;
6.2 Refactoring: Inheritance and Mixins;
6.3 Exercises;
6.4 Refactor Steps;
Chapter 7: Domain Data;
7.1 Dealing with Zip Codes;
7.2 Strategy Pattern with Domain Tables;
7.3 Refactor from Day One;
Chapter 8: Composite Keys and Domain Key/Normal Form;
8.1 Why Composite Natural Keys Matter;
8.2 Atop the Shoulders of...;
8.3 Exercises;
8.4 Refactor Steps;
Chapter 9: Guaranteeing Complex Relationships with Triggers;
9.1 Constraint Checking with Triggers;
Chapter 10: Multiple Table Inheritance;
10.1 The Problem;
10.2 What Is Polymorphism?;
10.3 Inheritance and Persistence;
10.4 Factory Classes;
10.5 Exercises;
10.6 Refactor Steps;
Chapter 11: View-Backed Models;
11.1 Database Views;
11.2 Basing a Model on a View;
11.3 Considerations;
11.4 Exercises;
11.5 Refactor Steps;
Chapter 12: Materialized Views;
12.1 Materialized View Principles;
12.2 A View to Materialize;
12.3 The Target Table;
12.4 Refresh and Invalidation Functions;
12.5 Triggered Refreshes and Invalidations;
12.6 Hiding the Implementation with the Reconciler View;
12.7 Cache Indexes;
12.8 Results;
12.9 Cascading Caches;
12.10 Exercises;
Chapter 13: SOA Primer;
13.1 What Is SOA?;
13.2 Why SOA?;
13.3 Exercises;
Chapter 14: SOA Considerations;
14.1 Service Considerations;
14.2 API Design Best Practices;
14.3 REST Versus XML-RPC Versus SOAP;
Chapter 15: An XML-RPC Service;
15.1 ActionWebService and Rails
2.0;
15.2 Creating an Abstraction Barrier;
15.3 More Testing;
15.4 The Client Plugin;
Chapter 16: Refactoring to Services;
16.1 An Orders Service;
16.2 Integrating with the MoviesService;
16.3 MoviesService Object Model;
16.4 Putting It All Together;
Chapter 17: REST Primer;
17.1 REST Basics;
17.2 Mapping REST to SOA;
Chapter 18: A RESTful Web Service;
18.1 Scoping the Problem;
18.2 MoviesWebService;
Chapter 19: Caching End to End;
19.1 Data Layer Caching, Revisited;
19.2 Logical Model Caching;
19.3 Other Caching;Colophon;