SOA done right
Microservice architecture emerged, not as a solution looking for a problem, but as the result of the shortcomings and drawbacks of the traditional service-oriented architecture (SOA) and monolithic architecture.
SOA provides a number of benefits, which were covered in Chapter 7, Software Architecture Patterns, such as increasing the alignment between business and technology, promoting federation within an organization, allowing for vendor diversity, and increasing interoperability.
Although microservice architecture is a variation of the service-oriented architecture, there are key differences between the two. Some people even refer to the microservice architecture as SOA done right.
In addition to moving us away from monolithic ...
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