July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
11h 18m
English
In theory, SOA is not all about ESBs, but the reality is that ESBs have always been at the center of many SOA implementations. What would be the role of an ESB in the microservices world?
In general, microservices are fully cloud-native systems with smaller footprints. The lightweight characteristics of microservices enable the automation of deployments, scaling, and more. In contrast, enterprise ESBs are heavyweight in nature, and most of the commercial ESBs are not cloud friendly. The key features of an ESB are protocol mediation, transformation, orchestration, and application adaptors. In a typical microservices ecosystem, we may not need any of these features.
The limited ESB capabilities that are ...
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