Brown Bag Session - A View on Services

28th of April 2022

The accompanying slide deck can be found here.

The purpose of the presentation was to give an introduction to what services are in the current IT landscape to a diverse audience of non-technical people. This session was given at the behest of BNP Paribas. The presentation focused on the following topics:

  • a definition of what a service is
  • the components that make up a service
  • a comparison of a conversation between services to a conversation between people
  • a typical service contract and what it consists of
  • a brief history of where we came from and how services evolved
  • the different service architectures and the trade-offs with each of them
  • how to get rid of monolithic architectures in favor of services
  • the role services play in automating business processes
  • differences between ESB and API gateway
  • to cloud or not to cloud

Some slides from the presentation:

Structure of a Service

Tradeoffs between classic SOA and Micro Services

Keynote SOA