After spending the last four years rolling out and maintaining service oriented architectures, it’s my hope that I’ve accumulated enough scars on the topic to approximate wisdom. This is an attempt to share some useful tidbits. First I’ll briefly describe the two different SOAs I’ve been working on to provide some context, and then launch into the lessons I’ve learned and observations I’ve made. D
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