Service-oriented architecture

How it is used

Used in enterprise systems and integration discussions. It emphasizes reusable services, clear contracts, and coordination across applications rather than one tightly coupled system.

Example sentences

1. The bank kept its customer, billing, and notification capabilities in a service-oriented architecture so multiple internal apps could reuse them.

   Here, service-oriented architecture means organizing major business functions as reusable services shared by several applications.

2. During the audit, the team documented each interface because the service-oriented architecture depended on stable contracts between departments.

   In this sentence, the term highlights an architecture where dependable service interfaces are essential for coordination across teams.

Common collocations

• service-oriented architecture
• SOA adoption
• service contract
• service interface

Related terms

• architectureThe high-level structure of a software system: its main parts, how they communicate with each other and the key technical decisions behind them.
• microservicesAn architecture in which an application is built as many small, independent services, each with one job, that talk to each other over the network.

More terms: Architecture, Design Patterns and Graphics

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• dependency
• tech stack
• design pattern
• trade-off
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• monolith
• modular
• abstraction
• separation of concerns
• loose coupling
• dependency injection