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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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Why Is Reference Data Management so Important?

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

In addition, RDM systems also manage complex mappings between different reference data representations and different data domains across the enterprise. Most contemporary RDM systems also provide connectivity, typically a service-oriented architecture (SOA) service layer (a.k.a.

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