Understanding service-oriented architecture
In SOA patterns, different application components interact using a communication protocol over the network. Each service provides end-to-end functionality, for example, fetching an order history. SOA is widely adopted by large systems to integrate business processes, for example, taking your payment service from the main application and putting it as a separate solution.
In a general sense, SOAs take monolithic applications and spread some of those operations into individual services that operate independently. The goal of using an SOA is to loosen the coupling of your application’s services. Sometimes, an SOA includes splitting services apart from one another and splitting resources into separate instances of that service. For example, while some choose to store their company’s data in a single database split by tables, an SOA would consider modularizing the application by function into separate databases altogether. This...
