Tag Archives: soa
Identifying the services within a service oriented CMS
In my previous post I talked about avoiding a database oriented architecture (DOA) and choosing a service oriented architecture (SOA) for our content management system (CMS). The next big question is: How do we divide our CMS into large-grained sets … Continue reading
Database Oriented Architecture is DOA
As we began work on a new CMS for msnbc.com, one of the major pain points with the existing system that we wanted to address was its database oriented architecture – or DOA. No, not the popular video game (searching … Continue reading
Business services, EDA and asynchronous messaging
Business services are not the same thing as web services. A business service is a high-level concept: a large-grained, cohesive set of business functionality. Everywhere you see the word “service” in this post you should think “big chunk of business … Continue reading
What is a service?
In last week’s training, one of the biggest “Aha!” moments for me was an answer to the simple question “What is a service?” As someone who consumes a lot of guidance from Microsoft’s p&p team, and looks to gurus like … Continue reading
Udi Dahan’s distributed systems course
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Udi Dahan‘s Advanced Distributed Systems Design using SOA & DDD in Austin, TX. I learned a ton and gained a much clearer understanding of SOA and how to design systems using that … Continue reading
