Notes

what-modern-web-app-needs.md

What does a modern web app usually need:

• support localization in frontend and backend
• reliable background worker queue system
• content caching system
• client-polling / server-push system
• full-text search system
• user authentication system
• user access control system
• rich front-end framework (reliable on flanky network)
  • user action queue
  • retry user action
• Web API client (with auth, cache, retry, background work supports)
• Web API provider (auth, api doc, JSON view templating, cache control)
• User analytics

what-web-app-dev-needs.md

dev features:

• configuration separated from code
• db seed
• dev env setup script
• test env
  • unit
  • integration
• code metric
• runtime performance tracking
• reload when code change
• nested exception (https://github.com/skorks/nesty)

API Error Response Format
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-problem-04
https://github.com/guillec/api_problem

fulltext search candidates:

• solr
• elasticsearch (http://railscasts.com/episodes/306-elasticsearch-part-1?view=asciicast)

Runtime Performance Monitoring:

https://github.com/bhb/rack-perftools_profiler
http://nearinfinity.github.io/system-metrics/