SOA layers - bookstore. Module 17

Question 1

Benefits of choreography of services

Answer 1

1. Running parallel
2. No single point of failure
3. Adding new microservice is easy if it doesn’t affect the process

Question 2

Disadvantages of choreography of services

Answer 2

1. Hard to have a holistic view of all the control logics
2. Troublesome for managers to have a big picture
3. Coupled microservices in terms of calling URLs
4. If business process changes, need to change Microservices

Question 3

Benefits of orchestrating services

Answer 3

1. Easier to have a big picture of control logics

2. Underlying microservices unlinked from each other

Question 4

Disadvantages of orchestration

Answer 4

1. Central control logics may become too big, may need to break down into multiple complex microservices
2. If process microservice becomes a hub, may be performance bottleneck
3. If long running, may take a long time to run