After more than a decade of being the focus of the industry's attention, SOA is still widely misunderstood at all levels, business and technical, and is still being successfully sold as a snake oil. This is why the publication of this book is extremely important.
Being a rare objective survey of the entire SOA landscape, the book touches on numerous dimensions of SOA and services: service classification, lifecycle, management, performance, security, and governance. In the still over-hyped SOA landscape, the author stands out with his reasoning and pragmatism, which he showed in his earlier books (e.g. his excellent book "The C++ Standard Library").
On about 300 pages the author manages not just to cover numerous important topics at a reasonable depth, but to pause at important points and suggest a helpful practical advice from his own experience. The book reads well, the language is simple and straightforward. This book has a lot of thought and value per ounce, which is very unusual for a SOA book.
Whether you are new to SOA or have been sick from reading mountains of nonsense about it for years, you MUST have this book on your bookshelf, next to "Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices" by Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, and Dirk Slama, and "Service Orient or Be Doomed" by ZapThink founders Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer.
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