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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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Fowler's taxonomy of the architectural patterns lurking inside every serious web application — Active Record, Unit of Work, Identity Map, and the rest. DHH used it as a map while building Rails, and considers it indispensable for understanding why frameworks differ.
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