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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

David Chappell has just posted a good primer explaining exactly what Service Component Architecture (SCA) is and why we should care about it.In the paper, David explores the properties of ...