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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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Tips for designing distributed systems

CircleCI

If you need resilient, resource-conserving systems with rapid delivery, it is time to design a distributed system. To successfully architect a heterogeneous, secure, fault-tolerant, and efficient distributed system, you need conscientiousness and some level of experience. A brief history of software 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. What Are Microservices?

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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. Early feedback has been excellent including a stellar early review from JBoss CTO Mark Little. Amazon UK nearly sold out almost immediately and we're making it standard issue for the architecture course at Web 2.0 Architectures Hacking the Web's Network Effect.

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Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The concept is now poised to — sooner or later — become the primary digital collaboration fabric with all our enterprise data, IT systems, 3rd party developers, business parters, suppliers, and other stakeholders. Upon reviewing this, the CIO suddenly sat back, the light clearly having come on, and said, “I get it now.

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What Is Loosely Coupled Architecture?

Dzone - DevOps

A loosely coupled architecture is a software application development model wherein multiple components are connected with one another but are not heavily dependent on each other. Together, these components create a general network or system, despite each service being an independent entity created to perform a single task.

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Agile Methodologies: What is the Agile Software Development Model?

Openxcell

This linear form of system is known as the Waterfall approach in project management. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from Self-organizing teams. Adaptive Software Development or ASD is a way to build complicated software and systems. It is also used for effective documentation of such systems.