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Re:Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster ... by phildawes on Saturday August 22, 2009 @04:19AM (#779152)
That's smells a bit of architecture astronaut to me if you don't mind me saying. Sharing information between systems is a tradeoff (vs arch complexity), not something to be avoided at all costs.
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Re:Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster ... by smhinsey on Saturday August 22, 2009 @08:43PM (#780017)
It certainly is not appropriate in every circumstance, but it can make a lot of sense for larger applications where you might have different people or even teams responsible for different parts of the application.
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