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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO

In the early 2000s, companies like Amazon, eBay, and Salesforce drove a trend toward standardizing interfaces among web applications. 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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Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As an industry, we have collectively returned to that eternal debate about what constitutes a largely technical evolution versus when an important digital idea becomes a full-blown business trend. This has happened before with Web sites, e-commerce, mobile applications, social media, and other well-known advances.

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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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From Project to Program: Scaling Camunda Adoption in Your Company

Bernd Rucker

As part of this project they: evaluated a workflow tool, modeled the workflow, implemented the whole workflow solution, integrated it with their existing user interface, integrated it with their existing SOA infrastructure, exported relevant data into their data warehouse And set it live and operated it. Which brings us to microservices.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture

Confluent

Do I need to use a microservices framework? Distributed object (RPC sync), service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise service bus (ESB), event-driven architecture (EDA), reactive programming to microservices and now FaaS have each built on the learnings of the previous. Do I need to use a microservices framework?

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Event-driven architecture benefits

Apiumhub

An event-driven architecture uses events to trigger and communicate between decoupled services and is common in modern applications built with microservices. In addition to that, the acquisition of information is getting massive thanks to technological and sociological trends like social media and IoT.

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Architecture options to run a workflow engine

Bernd Rucker

These are valid questions which recently we get asked a lot, especially in the context of microservices , modern SOA initiatives or domain-driven design. This is very much the view of a BPM or ESB-like component of the first wave of SOA projects, it is a central engine as described above. won’t this get a mess?”