SOA Patterns short status update
First off, In the previous post I published the Transactional Integration anti-pattern – if you need it for off-line reading you can also get it in PDF form. I am currently writing the “3-tier SOA” anti-pattern and it seems that together with “Whitebox services” anti-pattern it will complete the anti-patterns chapter. The two other anti-patterns in the chapter are...
Read MoreSOA anti-pattern: Transactional Integration
Transactional Integration It all starts with a business requirement – as it always should. We have an ordering system (say the same one from the Knot anti-pattern) and the business says they only want to confirm an order to the user if the item is already secured for that order in the stock. From the technical point of view we have 2 separate services – one handles orders the other...
Read MoreNanoservices anti-pattern pdf version
The formatting on the html version of the nano-services is a bit off (Word to HTML is so much fun) so I am also making it available as PDF. if you don’t remember Nonoservice is an Anti-pattern where a service is too fine grained. Nanoservice is a service whose overhead (communications, maintenance etc.) out-weights its utility. * illustration by...
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