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Microservices Explained: Not Your Father’s SOA

DevOps.com

Microservices are frequently referred to as a variant or derivative of service-oriented architecture (SOA), if not essentially the same thing. Microservices architecture […]. The post Microservices Explained: Not Your Father’s SOA appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Microservices: The Advantages of SOA Without Its Drawbacks

DevOps.com

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. The post Microservices: The Advantages of SOA Without Its Drawbacks appeared first on DevOps.com.

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SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?

Confluent

I will attempt to articulate in layman’s terms what an event-driven architecture (EDA) is and contrast it with service-oriented architecture (SOA). Philosophy aside and back to technology, this is ultimately a discussion about SOA vs. EDA, or in other words, API vs. events. Augmenting SOA with EDA can overcome these restrictions.

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One Team at Uber is Moving from Microservices to Macroservices

High Scalability

There may be an undiscovered tribe deep in some jungle somewhere that hasn’t made up their mind on microservices, but I doubt it. People love microservices or love to hate microservices. So it means something when even a team at a company like Uber announces a change away from microservices to something else.

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Understanding Microservices

Mentormate

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emerged in the early 2000s as services started being separated by function with the goal of reusability. SOA addresses some of the monolithic system concerns by separating the codebase into smaller pieces, however it introduces team dependencies as it strives to optimize for reusability.

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Microservices vs Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Fundamental Differences

Daffodil Software

With increasing complexity and demand for highly scalable and robust applications, conventional monolithic architecture is no longer the best choice. After a certain threshold, monolithic architecture tends to hinder application performance and scalability.

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SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith

CircleCI

Two of the most popular service-based approaches are service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. Since SOA is an admittedly older style, it may not be appropriate for modern cloud-native applications. Let’s start by getting a feel for what SOA really is. What are microservices?

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