service-tier

Scaling strategies for Service Tiers on .NET

I'm working on a web product that is composed of many modular web applications. To the end user, it appears to be one single application, though various components are broken out into their own apps. Part of the reasoning for this is so that it can be easily scaled horizontally across multiple application servers. To facilitate easier ...

Service-Orientation vs Object-Orientation - can they coexist?

There's been a lot of interest in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) at my company recently. Whenever I try to see how we might use it, I always run up against a mental block. Crudely: Object-orientation says: "keep data and methods that manipulate data (business processes) together"; Service-orientation says: "keep the business proce...