In part 2, I briefly covered Event-Driven SOA and why event messages are preferred for communication between services. I also stated that…

In the previous post in this series, I wrote about scaling up vs out, why we chose scaling-out and why layered service models are not the answer. In this post, I will delve deeper into vertical services and how they help with scaling out strategies. Services in Service-Oriented Architectures If

In this series of posts, I will discuss the challenges I faced developing a highly scalable and highly available SaaS product using a Service-Oriented Architecture. The first question you might want to ask yourself when designing a scalable system is whether to scale out or up. When scaling up (vertical