SOA versus microservices

You'll get confused between microservices and SOA if you don't have a complete understanding of both. On the surface of it, microservices' features and advantages sound almost like a slender version of SOA, with many experts suggesting that there is, in fact, no need for an additional term, such as microservices, and that SOA can fulfill all the attributes laid out by microservices. However, this is not the case. There is enough difference to isolate them miles apart technologically.

The underlying communication system of SOA inherently suffers from the following problems:

  • The communication system of SOA inherently suffers from the fact that a system developed in SOA depends upon its components, which are interacting ...

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