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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural framework used for software development that focuses on applications and systems as independent services. Average salary for expertise: $172,772 Average salary for regular use: $137,626 Difference: $35,146 2.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO

The result was a complete overhaul of how applications were developed and integrated, thanks to a growing network of open web APIs that anyone could consume. Our Lego.com technology platform has been entirely microservices- and API-based for a number of years now and we are now propagating this approach across all of our technology areas.

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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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What Are Microservices And How To Best Leverage Them

iTexico

What Are Microservices And How To Best Leverage Them. So let me ask you a question: have you heard of microservices before? What Is a Microservice? Microservices, otherwise known as microservice architecture, is a distinctive software design that uses a collection of smaller services to form the architecture of an application.

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Latest Software Architecture Books That Will Be Presented at GSAS 2023

Apiumhub

While some authors will delve into software architecture topics unrelated to their books, they are more than eager to engage with GSAS attendees during networking sessions to discuss their upcoming releases. But microservices systems haven’t always kept that promise.

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Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Microservices is now a current topic of this debate, as the overall approach is perhaps the most strategic technology trend that’s come along in quite some time. So, you read it here first: Microservices are how most organizations will eventually conduct the majority of their business, internally and externally.

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Tips for designing distributed systems

CircleCI

With companies expecting software products to handle constantly increasing volumes of requests and network bandwidth use, apps must be primed for scale. We met this challenge with advancements in network computing like remote procedure calls over network protocols: Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).