Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a method of software development that uses software components called services to create business applications. Each service provides a business capability. They can also communicate with each other across platforms and languages. Developers use SOA to reuse services in different systems or combine several independent services to perform complex tasks. Microservices architecture is an evolution of the SOA architectural style. While each SOA service is a full business capability, each microservice is a much smaller software component that specializes in a single task only. Microservices address the shortcomings of SOA to make the software more compatible with modern cloud-based enterprise environments. While service-oriented architecture (SOA) might work well for building large enterprise applications, it needs more flexibility to scale smaller, business-specific applications. These are some limitations of SOA: The enterpris...