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Heuristics for Identifying Service Boundaries

OpenCredo

Because circumstances change over time, you also should regularly revisit your service boundaries, adapt accordingly and always strive to lower entry costs for such changes on both, the organisational and technical level. In IT we try to mimic such structures and came up with terms like Modules, SOA and Microservices. Motivation.

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

High Scalability

SOA architecture based on REST APIs. Focus on the core capability of your startup and if you are facing technically hard problems and you have to build something custom for it then roll up the sleeves and go for it. In SOA, build circuit breakers to shed load early and start sending 503s if your service is choked.