Microservices and service-oriented architecture are often compared, but the two frameworks are quite different and have unique uses in enterprise environments. Written by Brandon Vigliarolo ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

eBay, IBM, Wachovia Bank, Harley Davidson, HP, Amerprise Financial, Amazon, Citigroup, OnStar, and DreamWorks all reported seeing benefits from their SOA efforts in 2006.

SOA is the overarching strategy for building software applications inside a company—think of an architectural blueprint—except that in this case, the architecture calls for all the pieces of ...

Microservices vs SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) As it turns out, the difference between microservice architecture and service oriented architecture — also known as SOA — is relatively small.

Coupon giant Groupon transitioned from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture back in late 2012. They migrated their U.S. web traffic from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to ...

Rich Levin interviews Michael Richardson, CTO of Sterling Infosystems, about the challenges and rewards of building an SOA from the ground up, and polishing the results into an impressive case study.

Monolithic applications are also simpler when it comes to data storage. Individual components in a microservices architecture are generally responsible for persisting their own data, so each ...

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It's an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the ...