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

Confluent

Most contemporary software architectures are some mix of these two approaches. I will attempt to articulate in layman’s terms what an event-driven architecture (EDA) is and contrast it with service-oriented architecture (SOA). On a humorous note, perhaps SOA should really be called CDA for client-driven architecture.

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Microservices Done Right: Avoid the Antipatterns! Part 1

Accenture

Microservices architecture has become popular over the last several years. Microservices is a powerful architectural model: it is applicable and beneficial in many situations. But it does come with complexity and requires an investment in architecture, delivery, and organizational models. Architecture.

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Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Architects Need to Know

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Architectures is now out from O'Reilly as of this month. Amazon UK nearly sold out almost immediately and we're making it standard issue for the architecture course at Web 2.0 architectures in design pattern form (in fact, the book was originally entitled Web 2.0 Architectures Hacking the Web's Network Effect.

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Links for 2009-06-04 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Ten HBIs (half baked ideas) on SOA-cloud convergence | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com. 10 (excellent) ideas on SOA-cloud convergence from @joemckendrick today: [link] Good WOA/Global SOA mentions! ldignan says the Time cover on Twitter definitively jumps the shark: [link] ;-) [from [link]. from [link].

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SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith

CircleCI

Modern software development increasingly relies on distributed , service-based architectural patterns to achieve scalability, reliability, and rapid build, test, and release cycles. Two of the most popular service-based approaches are service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. What is service-oriented architecture?

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SAMOS – How To Evaluate Disruptive Innovation

CTOvision

One of the unintended consequences of distributed computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that things get more complicated. Nutanix employs Map/Reduce, Cassandra , Paxos , and Zookeeper to create a “distributed everything” architecture. Since I was trained as an engineer, I use the networking definition.

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Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

First, a brief definition: Microservices provide a well organized digital structuring of our business capabilities that are exposed to stakeholders who need what our organizations can do, and are usually accessed via open APIs. Half measures have long-doomed efforts at SOA, APIs, developer networks, etc.