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Note: This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally posted here in July 2009. No SOA, no cloud. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA. That's the messsage ...

EDS Fellow Alex Cameron has been pondering the growth of complex systems, and has come to the conclusion that current concerns about the viability and ROI-ness of service-oriented architecture (SOA) ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Senyo Simpson discusses how Rust's core values lead to "fearless programming." He shares front-line experience with ...

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 ...

A few years back, SOA (service-oriented architecture) was all the rage. Vendors rushed to remarket everything as SOA, and SOA-washing was the new greenwashing. But in today’s rush to the cloud, have ...

Service oriented computing is a paradigm that underpins modern distributed systems by encapsulating discrete, self‐contained units of functionality—known as services—which interact over standard ...

Cloud computing offers a bright future for enterprise IT in the form of a scalable infrastructure and pay-as-you-need pricing model. As cloud adoption emerges both in hype and value, all technologists ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

For more than a decade, IT managers and advocates have been working tirelessly to enable solutions based on common standards and protocols that can be built, supported, swapped out and replaced, ...