Oracle Magazine, September/October 2017
Were always iterating on what we can do better making small changes and learning from the experience to make it better for the customer Brian Lee Engineering Manager Trunk Club ORACLE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2017 43 making it live were confident that its not going to break any other things because the components are separated and contained within their own services Talk to the API Trunk Club has created a few rules to govern the communication among its front end and back end systems its APIs and its services We have microservices in the sense that different services talk to each other says Lee So one of the rules we have is that the front end app should not talk to the service directly It should always talk to the API And different services can talk to each other thats another rule and the API can talk to the service But the service should not talk back to the API Lee adds Setting these guidelines for the information flow makes it easier to visualize how the system works says Lee The API gathers the information and massages it together and gives it to the front end where it can talk to different services he says But if a service needs something the services just talk to each other without having to worry about the API Next Up Data Science APIs True innovation however cant happen inside the engineering team alone To that end Lee is eager to use Oracle Apiary Cloud Service as the home base for collaboration with teams outside engineering starting with the data science team That team builds its own applications to do research and those applications pull data from some of the same back end
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