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My father always said, “use the right tool for the job”. Good advice which when not followed delivers poor results. But, sometimes it is not quite clear what the right tool to use is. Once we get passed the confusion between APIs, Services, and Microservices, a good question is – what are...
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Many IT organizations built an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in the mid-2000s or early 2010s. Other businesses, never did. But as both sets of organizations begin looking at an API initiative they ask questions about the relationships between APIs and Services: Are APIs and Services...
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Two extremely hot IT topics right now are APIs and Microservices. Unfortunately, too many people think this is one topic – i.e. they are the same thing. This is not correct. There are several misconceptions about APIs and Microservices, and throwing in Services (from Service Oriented...