Andrew McDonough

Please note: This page is imported from my wiki, which hasn't been updated in over 10 years. Some of the formatting was lost during the import. I'll try to get around to fixing it someday.

Service-Oriented Architecure (SOA)

A Service-Oriented Archicture is one where rather than having one large, enterprise application, the business requirements are divided up into finer grained services. These services are loosely coupled and communicate by sending messages to one another, usually over a network. This is often done over the web, via [web services]] (as defined by IBM or Microsoft), or in the lighter form of [REST (Representation State Transfer).


Andrew McDonough

Andrew McDonough is a consultant CTO and software developer, currently based between Berlin and London.

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