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There's a lot of talk about how the application server is dead. But the trend seems to be quite the opposite when one looks at the management tool suites cloud-native developers are putting together.

Modern architectural systems divide work among independent teams. An existing monolithic application must be decomposed for this purpose.

The trend toward software being architected in which components are loosely coupled, interactions are performed reliably and asynchronously through the use of message-based systems, and access to ...

Loose coupling is one of those suddenly popular great ideas that have actually been around for a long time. With loose coupling come two significant benefits long sought by business and IT managers: ...

Hard wiring processes should be a sin, let's do away with it once and for all. Since the dawn of computing, applications have been rigidly architected, and therefore tightly dependant on one another.

I've had a few people ask me about loose coupling and SOA recently. There seems to be some confusion around this concept. With the advent of web services and SOA we've been seeking to create ...