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Hereof, how is Microservice different from SOA?
One of the major difference between Microservices and SOA is the size and scope of services. Microservices are significantly smaller in size than SOA. On the other hand, an SOA can either be monolithic or can have multiple microservices.
Also Know, is Microservice is considered as subset of SOA? Are microservices, as some have argued, simply a way of “finally getting SOA right?” No: Microservices are a subset of SOA and apply some additional rules. It is the adherence to those rules that gives microservices their own unique “mission” in application development and enterprise architecture.
Subsequently, question is, what is the advantage of Microservices architecture over SOA?
On the other hand, Microservices are agnostic to most of these things. You can use any technology stack, any hardware/middleware, any protocol etc. as long as you follow the principles of Microservices. Microservices architecture also provides more flexibility, stability and speed of development over SOA architecture.
What is meant by SOA?
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a style of software design where services are provided to the other components by application components, through a communication protocol over a network.