Before There Was Cloud Computing, There Was SOA
September 19, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
Before there was cloud computing, there was service oriented architecture (SOA). While cloud encompasses implementation and application delivery options, SOA is concerned with the foundation underneath that makes it all possible.
Fittingly, next week’s 5th International SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium, being held in London, will host a program that represents the natural evolution between the two disciplines — and “service technology” is an apt term that describes both. Originally, the conference was called the International SOA Symposium. (Disclosure: I serve on the planning committee for the conference.)…
The bottom line is without SOA, it’s very difficult to get to cloud. An elevator-pitch definition of service oriented architecture would be: Loosely-coupled services with well-defined interfaces that provide business functionality and can be shared or reused across and beyond the enterprise. These services can be discovered through a registry/repository or other directory, and can be assembled and dis-assembled to meet current business process demands…
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