Chapter 6. Microservices and SOA
At first glance microservices and SOA (service-oriented architecture) seem to have a lot in common, for both approaches focus on the modularization of large systems into services. Are SOA and microservices actually the same or are there differences? Answering this question helps us to get an in-depth understanding of microservices, and some of the concepts from the SOA field are interesting for microservice-based architectures. An SOA approach can be advantageous when migrating to microservices. It separates the functionality of the old applications into services that can then be replaced or supplemented by microservices.
Section 6.1 defines the term “SOA” as well as the term “service” within the context of SOA. ...
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