December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
8h 30m
English
Another widely used architecture in the industry was a service-oriented architecture (SOA). This architecture was a move away from the monolithic architecture and was involved in resolving some of its challenges, mentioned in the preceding section. To begin with, it was based on a collection of services. Providing a service was the core concept of SOA.
A service is a piece of code, program, or software that provides some functionality to other system components. This piece of code was able to interact directly with the database or indirectly through other services. It was self-contained to the extent that it allowed services to be consumed easily by both desktop and mobile applications.
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