Service Oriented Architectures versus microservices
When a developer encounters microservices and they know the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) style of software design, the first question they ask themselves is whether SOA and microservices are the same thing or whether they are related, and the answer is a little bit controversial; depending on who you ask, the answer will be different.
According to Martin Fowler, SOA focuses on integrating monolithic applications between themselves, and it uses an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to achieve this.
When the SOA architectures began to appear, these ones tried to connect different components between themselves, and this is one of the characteristics of microservices, but the problem with SOA was ...
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