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SOA and microservices

SOA and microservices

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 3 Security Architecture and Engineering

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SOA and microservices

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- [Instructor] Service oriented architecture, or SOA, is a design philosophy that encourages organizations to create discrete services that may be accessed by customers and other users in a black box fashion. Users don't need to know how the service works. They just need to know what the service does and how to access it. The Open Group, a standards body for architecture, defines SOA services using four key characteristics. Services are logical representations of a repeatable business activity that has a specified outcome, they are self-contained, they may be composed of other underlying services, and they have that black box quality that we just discussed. Users don't need to know how the service works, just what the service does and how they can access it. The SOA approach is popular among developers because it facilitates the integration of services from different vendors. If your sales system comes from a different…

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