IT professionals and business leaders with an interest in cloud services have probably heard the term 'microservices', quite possibly in discussions about service-oriented architecture (SOA). There ...

Many people consider microservices to be the latest evolution of service oriented architecture. A microservice oriented architecture is a next-gen SOA, it is argued. But the two architectures aren't ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) was once a topic hot enough to fill its own magazine. In fact, SOA was the first software development methodology to ever successfully pierce the realm of business ...

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While service oriented architectures have been popular for quite some time, microservices and SOA together can take the idea of modularity in enterprise applications to a completely new level. SOA is ...

As I mentioned in my previous article, “Microservice architecture is agile software architecture,” my initial reaction to microservice architecture was to question how it differed from ...

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...

A microservices application is one that is composed of a series of discrete services, which communicate with one another via an API. Microservices apps are the opposite of monolithic applications. The ...