For a slightly different slant on SOA's I'd thoroughly recommend watching Fred George's talk on the technical side of implementing micro-service architectures f

For a slightly different slant on SOA's I'd thoroughly recommend watching Fred George's talk on the technical side of implementing micro-service architectures from Oredev last year https://vimeo.com/79866979 https://vimeo.com/79866979 along with his talk on Programmer Anarchy which is more about the resulting team / working patterns https://vimeo.com/79866978 https://vimeo.com/79866978 It's moved playing with much finer-grained service architectures way up my to to list.