Questions about service-oriented architecture, or designing software as a collection of services.
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Architecture for highly scalable media transcoding service with a REST API on top of it [on hold]
I need to develop a highly scalable media transcoding service for an already existing SOA ecosystem. Also, we are highly addicted to AWS and use it and it's services whenever possible. I am aware that ...
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What is the most elegant way to handle a loop between two systems integrated remotely by webhook events?
So I'm developing this small engine that does a remote integration between two systems in order to sync data, both systems have webhooks for create & update events, and both have APIs (one is REST ...
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Is SOA as a concept intended to function within code or between machines over a network?
As the question states: When implementing "SOA", is it a concept intended for communication between systems over a network or is it intended as a concept that operates within the language as a ...
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Is this any form of service pattern, some other pattern, SOA or just an anti-pattern?
I'm going to set out a scenario/pattern I've encountered and then I have a few questions pertaining to it.
During an MVC request in a web framework (PHP, Laravel in my case), if I have an abstract ...
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SOA, Java EE and data organization
At the company I work for, we're currently splitting up our monolith solution into a number of small services (SOA).
The purpose of this is to make the developers working on each chunk of code ...
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Is a Mission Oriented Architecture (MOA) a better way to describe things than SOA?
I might sound like a troll, but I would like to seriously understand this deeper. The place I work at has started to use the term MOA, versus SOA as we believe it drives more clarity and want to ...
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Is ROA a specific form of doing SOA?
I have read somewhere that ROA (Resource Oriented Architecture) is SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) with specific constraints added. SOA is the abstract concept of combining discrete pieces of ...
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What factors should be considered before deciding to build a message bus with SOAP services? [closed]
It would seem to me that the cost of having a team of developers build and maintain all the components necessary to provide routing, workflow orchestration, durability, security and the other features ...
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DDD/SOA Using .NET Message pattern(s) / Request Response with File Saving [closed]
I've done some research on this but I can't find more specific examples to help me with this. I'm new to SOA/Patterns in general please take it easy... :)
Can you display an example of using the ...
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Acceptable dependencies in a service-oriented architecture, internal to a team
In a service-oriented architecture, subsystems can depend on each other in different levels:
Database level => Foreign keys to enforce data integrity across services on deletions and updates ...
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How to loosely couple modules in service oriented architecture
We're developing a total solution, and we've chosen service-oriented architecture to loosen subsystems. However, now we have a problem.
When customer orders something, Order Subsystem is responsible ...
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Component based software engineering vs Service Oriented Architecture [duplicate]
What is the real difference between component-based software engineering and Service Oriented Architecture?
Clemens Szyperski and David Messerschmitt present the following five principles that a ...
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Document Storage Repository - Open Source / Design Pattern
I currently have several web applications that offer document upload and storage.
I am now trying to create a central document management service that these application can leverage to store and ...
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Dependencies between services in pipeline [closed]
I am working on creating a new data processing system, where there are multiple steps each fulfilled by different services. For example, there is a scheduling service that kicks of something, an ...
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Assessing Relative Maintainability
We (a contractor, actually) are implementing an off the shelf system to replace a legacy homegrown system for the core domain of the company (designing widgets). Unfortunately both systems will have ...
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ROA on top of SOA [closed]
I already have a stable Service Oriented Architecture for my application which exposes services as API calls. (the verbs)
Now, I need to build a Resource Oriented Architecture to expose a RESTful API ...
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Push-Based Events in a Services Oriented Architecture
I have come to a point, in building a services oriented architecture (on top of Thrift), that I need to expose events and allow listeners.
My initial thought was, "create an EventService" to handle ...
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How do I reduce the number of WCF config files in a SOA?
After embracing the whole SOA thing, I've found that I'm gradually drowning in a sea of web.config and app.config files.
As an example, one system has 2 services that it interacts with. Each service ...
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Coding to SOA, External Dependency
This has happend to me more than once, thought someone can give some insight.
I have worked on multiple projects where my project depends on external service. When I have to run the application ...
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How does signing headers and/or body provide security
I'm securing a WCF webservice with TransportWithMessageCredential security that uses certificates.
So I'll have to choosee between signing headers & body or signing and encrypting.
Now my ...
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Does SOA service composition actually work in practice?
One of the main SOA service design principles is Service Composability principle
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_composability_principle).
The idea is that by composing new services using ...
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Software Architecture Modelling
I am a little confused at how best to visually model a space-based architecture (SBA) for presenting the system/software architecture design to a client.
The goal of this modelling is to show:
The ...
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DDD - Domain Object calling a web service
Is it ok to call a webservice from a Domain object?.
As I write the question I am thinking that you should never do that, as it is poor design, but the situation is the following:
I have a domain ...
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SOA - The four tenets
I'm reading about SOA and the four tenets required to make a SOA application. I have tried different sources, but the explanations are twisting. I'm searching for something that is a bit less ...
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How to implement session state in a backend web application?
When using a non-MVC service-oriented/Interactor pattern approach to decoupled system architecture, how is session state implemented?
I've been thinking of building the frontend of an application ...
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Good design for delegates in a service oriented architecture
My problem is quite complex to explain and my English is not excellent, so I hope you can understand my question.
In a service oriented architecture there are some modules that own data used by all ...
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What's a good strategy for managing static data in an SOA?
I'm working on a web application that sits on top of a number of RESTful web services, interacting primarily with those services through JSON formatted messages over HTTP. Our application has a great ...
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Reuse Business Logic between Web and API
We have a website and two mobile apps that connect through an API. All the platforms do the exactly same things. Right now the structure is the following:
Website. It manages models, controllers, ...
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SOA in .NET 4.5 with MSMQ Durability
I have been doing some investigation regarding ASP.NET Web API. I have enjoyed using the WCF REST template to create new RESTful web services, and Web API seems to be a cleaner iteration on that.
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Allowing client to select data to return via REST interface
I have a rest service that is essentially a proxy to a variety of other services. So if I call
GET /users/{id}
It will get their user profile, as well as order history, and contact info, etc... all ...
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Is there a clean separation of my layers with this attempt at Domain Driven Design in XAML and C#
I'm working on an application. I'm using a mixture of TDD and DDD. I'm working hard to separate the layers of my application and that is where my question comes in.
My solution is laid out as ...
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Issues with the intended behavior of a Service layer?
This analysis makes sense, and states anything that avoids code duplication and simplifies maintenance speaks for a service layer.
What is the technical behavior?
When a service client references a ...
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In choosing a service-oriented architecture framework that needs to work with .NET and with Java, what to look for?
I planning to write an application in which there will be a service (call it A) listening for particular commands. This service will then relay those commands to other services (call them B and C) ...
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Is SOA an Utopia? [closed]
I have attended to many SOA related sales pitches and presentations through the years. SOA projects have died because of lack of interest or because of grandiose scopes. The very buzzword has lost ...
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Should business services cross bounded contexts?
Firstly, I am following the convention that a bounded context is synonymous to a department, or possibly one department has 1 to many bounded contexts.
We have a client consultancy department that ...
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Learning Issued Token in Federated Service
I would like to learn federated WCF service. I have the following in my system.
• Windows XP
• Visual Studio 2010 Express
• SQL Server 2008 Express
Is it possible to create a federated ...
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Relationship between SOA and OOA
Thomas Erl defines SOA as follows in his site:
Service-oriented computing represents a new generation distributed
computing platform. As such, it encompasses many things, including its
own ...
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What is the value of workflow tools?
I'm new to Workflow developement, and I don't think I'm really getting the "big picture". Or perhaps to put it differently, these tools don't currently "click" in my head.
So it seems that companies ...
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Where does Java get its SOA reputation from?
I see lots of SOA books surrounding Java and have always had the subliminal notion that Java is the "right" language for robust/enterprisey SOA, even though I know what SOA involves and that it is ...
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How to use the unit of work and repository patterns in a service oriented enviroment
I've created an application framework using the unit of work and repository patterns for it's data layer. Data consumer layers such as presentation depend on the data layer design. For example a CRUD ...
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Amazon SOA: database as a Service
There is an interesting interview with Werner Vogels which is partly about how Amazon does Service Oriented Architecture:
For us service orientation means encapsulating the data with the
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Why is there no service-oriented language?
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To avoid further confusion: I am not talking about web services and such. I am talking about structuring applications internally, it's not about how computers communicate. It's about ...
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how to handle / architect soa when service becomes unavailable?
Say I've got a third-party service called Cool.io that provides a RESTful API but often goes down. My applications consume that API, but when Cool.io goes down, my app really can't do much... but it ...
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What are requirements for a successful SOA?
I’m an EA in an organisation with 10000+ employees. Strategically we are heading towards SOA. Currently I’m researching about SOA’s and creating a road map and I have come over many blogs that talk ...
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Queuing RPC calls
I'm designing a system which listens to JSON RPC calls from clients, piles them up inside a list, and if the list gets full it will store them in a DB and keep receiving calls.
My original plan is to ...
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Where to put Spring configuration file?
I want to integrate Spring framework in my project especially into server side.
So, I don't want to put it within WEB-INF folder of war file.
Should I put an applicationContext.xml it into each ...
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Need some critique on .NET/WCF SOA architecture plan
I am working on a refactoring of some services and would appreciate some critique on my general approach. I am working with three back-end data systems and need to expose an authenticated front-end ...
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Does Service-Oriented Architecture require the robustness principle?
I try to migrate more and more of our IT infrastructure to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), that means separation of independent tasks and implementation of this tasks as decoupled services, ...
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How can you effectively use web services in an enterprise environment if you can't use transactions?
The place I'm working at is trying to establish some ground rules, and the debate we're having now is local libraries vs web services for code reuse. Web services seem to be the popular pick in most ...
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Why should I use JAX-RS REST instead of normal servlets?
I'm teaching myself J2EE technologies using Glassfish as my webserver and EJB container. I'm very interested in learning REST as well, and developing an application that is adherent to the rules of ...
