TOG Microservice architecture

[William Cox <wtcox@CoxSoftwareArchitects.com>]

Sending to the group list.

https://collaboration.opengroup.org/msa/index.php (TOG Micro Service Architecture group) shows no papers for review, and a planned white paper

A white paper detailing the definition, and The Open Group’s position on MSA.

As a non-member, I'm not logged in.

There was a webinar by members of that group on 19 January 2016 (see http://www.opengroup.org/subjectareas/soa/digital-age/microservices ) with links to the slides and a discussion forum.

I repeat that this is a distinction with little value -- I see this as a parallel to the microgrid/grid work in electrical engineering; the North American Power grid meets the definition of a microgrid for example.

In the microgrid/local grid/regional grid case, however, there are deployment issues that are more prominent; the example that comes to mind is that frequency regulation services are needed for a little grid and a big grid, but Volt-Var management (phase angle from e.g. solar and battery inverters) is exclusively a local service need.

In my own SOA design work, OASIS Energy Interoperation (http://docs.oasis-open.org/energyinterop/ei/v1.0/os/energyinterop-v1.0-os.html ) I think that in this brave new world I defined microservices. But I see zero distinction between so-called "enterprise SOA" and what I've done.

bill

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