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0 pointsfoo4u8y ago0 comments

It's really SOA without the XML based service bus.

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Oh the "service bus" <strike>xml</strike> json is coming back... its called lambda architecture.

And again nothing new except someone else takes care of some server software for you with the promise of reduced price and maintenance but the reality eventually becomes tight proprietary coupling and eventual price gauging.

derefr8y ago

Amazon's own Lambda is that, yes. But the Lambda architecture it inspired is the opposite: a de-facto standard (based on the way Amazon's works, but probably eventually an open standard) for servers any org can use to stand up their own public or private FaaS cloud, which developers can deploy Lambda functions onto rather than having to build an entire container/VM just to slot it into OpenStack.

edgan8y ago

I doubt it will ever be a standard. Amazon loves vendor lock in. Plus most of the cloud services love to do their own thing for each service type. The main exception seems to be Kubernetes. Google has it in GCE, and Amazon has said they are working on their own Kubernetes service. If that happens, I bet Azure will follow if they aren't already working on it.

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ChemicalWarfare8y ago

You can definitely do microservices that way but in reality they tend to be more granular both functionality wise and density-wise.

With old skool SOA you'd typically have a monolith app with a bunch of endpoints. With microservices, especially in a containerized environment they tend to be more lightweight.

dasil0038y ago

Microservices is just SOA rebranded for the cool kids. The fact that modern orchestration and tooling makes it easier to have more granular services changes the equation for how you factor the services, to be sure, but it's an evolution not a revolution.

willejs8y ago

This.

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