How Square enables rapid service creation
Square employs documentation-driven development within a service-oriented architecture to enable rapid deployment of new services.
Service Oriented
Service technology -- from SOA to cloud to IT service management -- promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with service orientation, and how to capitalize on these emerging computing philosophies.
Joe McKendrick
Joe McKendrick is an author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments shaping the technology industry.
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Can SOA liberate the cloud?
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