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Exceeding the Benefits of Complexity? A Fractal Model for the Social Business Era

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

and SOA is one that I deeply explored in the 2005-2007 timeframe, and my ideas on this even made the cover story of the SOA/Web Services Journal at one point. A collapse of a monolith, consumed by its own growth and complexity? As against the simpler, fractal approach of ecosystems? This fractal aspect of user systems, Web 2.0,

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. SOA architecture based on REST APIs. Egnyte was founded in 2007. In SOA, build circuit breakers to shed load early and start sending 503s if your service is choked.