Tag: soa

Microservices Explained: Not Your Father’s SOA
Microservices are frequently referred to as a variant or derivative of service-oriented architecture (SOA), if not essentially the same thing. While there are similarities and both are designed around the concept of ...

Microservices: The Advantages of SOA Without Its Drawbacks
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was the great hope of organizations decades ago when they sought to advance legacy system integration, reduce and bypass layers, and rapidly access the system of record. At ...

Containers, Service Mesh and API Gateways: It Starts at the Edge
Anyone embracing container technology such as Docker or Kubernetes has no doubt heard about the associated next big thing: service mesh, which promises to homogenize internal network communication between microservices and provide ...

The Executive’s Guide to Microservices: Chapter 1
Meet Steve. Steve is responsible for a mission-critical application for a very large enterprise. He has a problem: It takes Steve and his team a very long time to make changes to ...

SOA vs Microservices
Some say microservices architecture is proof that SOA is still alive. I contend that microservices architecture replaces SOA due to deficiencies in how SOA has been implemented as well as the original ...

DevOps Debates: Monoliths or Microservices
From the time software came into existence, application software has been booming to leverage the benefit of the computing paradigm. During this cycle, it has transformed decades of design and architectural thinking, and ...

What’s hot with DevOps
DevOps as a movement to transform people, technology, processes for higher business value is here to stay. It's disrupting organizational processes replacing the old with the new. Command and control IT, a historical approach to regulating ...

3 golden rules of microservices deployments
As a developer, you value the principles of SOA. You aspire to build applications as a set of consumable services via endpoints. Remember how Amazon used SOA to build the AWS platform ...