To Java developers who were around about ten ago, the microservices approach to application design probably sounds familiar. In many ways, the Java microservices paradigm is similar to ...

The emerging shared services architecture borrows from the lineage of SOA, but it's ultimately a different animal. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

In contrast to microservices, SOA is neither agile nor speedy, as was proven during the enterprise service bus heyday. This architecture features macroservices, SOAP + XML, dumb endpoints with smart ...

Of course, a container-based architecture isn’t without challenges. Back-pressure effects with dependent services and the complexity of managing different services are two examples.