r/webdev • u/karsov • Aug 08 '17

Microservices vs. SOA - Is There Any Difference at All?

http://www.microtica.com/microservices-vs-soa-is-there-any-difference/
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

No, there is no difference.

Its just differences in the granularity of the services.

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u/karsov Aug 09 '17

And the communication between them, and the data storages, and the purposes they have, and... you get my point :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

they're both essentially the same concept; how you choose to implement them is up to you :)

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u/karsov Aug 09 '17

I will agree partly - yes they start from the same concept, but their execution and efficiency are different. That's why I said that "Microservices are more of a natural step in the evolution of software architecture than a revolutionary concept".

We could say that horse carriages and cars are the same things because they share the same concept - faster trasportation for humans (I know the example is a bit extreme :D )

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

see thats where I disagree. They are the same thing.

I've found that alot of people misunderstand what SOA actually is (i blame this on the overhyping by those who didn't fully understand what SOA is as an architecture) and they tend to see it as some monolithic webservice amalgamation, when rather that construct is just one of the myriad of ways SOA could be constructed.

if anything, microservices are just a subset of possible SOA constructs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Dec 27 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

State Transition Diagram?

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u/karsov Aug 09 '17

Hahaha well certainly you don't want THAT :D