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SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith

CircleCI

Two of the most popular service-based approaches are service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. Since SOA is an admittedly older style, it may not be appropriate for modern cloud-native applications. Let’s start by getting a feel for what SOA really is. What are microservices?

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

Data from the Dice 2024 Tech Salary Report shows that, for certain IT skills, organizations are willing to pay more to hire experts than IT pros with strong competence. NoSQL NoSQL is a type of distributed database design that enables users to store and query data without relying on traditional structures often found in relational databases.

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Understanding Microservices

Mentormate

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emerged in the early 2000s as services started being separated by function with the goal of reusability. SOA addresses some of the monolithic system concerns by separating the codebase into smaller pieces, however it introduces team dependencies as it strives to optimize for reusability.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO

Much of what has been learned is catalogued by the MACH Alliance, a global consortium of nearly 100 technology vendors that promotes “open and best-in-breed enterprise technology ecosystems,” with an emphasis on microservices and APIs. Data format should also be centrally managed to ensure uniformity.

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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). Also, a lot of data that needs to be analyzed is in most cases transient in nature. In many cases, the client-driven nature of SOA restricts the flexibility and scalability of the system.

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Microservices Done Right: Avoid the Antipatterns! Part 1

Accenture

Microservices architecture has become popular over the last several years. Many organizations have seen significant improvements in critical metrics such as time to market, quality, and productivity as a result of implementing microservices. Recently, however, there has been a noticeable backlash against microservices.

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The Pros and Cons of API-Led Connectivity

Dzone - DevOps

Most organizations have APIs to some degree, often evolving out of an SOA or microservices approach. In the model-view-controller, the users of the system connect at the view layer, the controller manages the orchestration, and the model connects to the data. API-led connectivity has a similar concept.

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