September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 20m
English

Service-oriented “architectures” and micro-service “architectures” have become very popular of late. The reasons for their current popularity include the following:
• Services seem to be strongly decoupled from each other. As we shall see, this is only partially true.
• Services appear to support independence of development and deployment. Again, as we shall see, this is only partially true.
First, let’s consider the notion that using services, by their nature, is an architecture. This is patently untrue. The architecture of a system is defined by boundaries that separate high-level policy from ...