"The term SOA has been so co-opted by vendors trying to sell stuff that I think it will die off as a term."
I think it did! I definitely didn't remember what it stood for. (The author does provide a definition, but it's on the 25th time he uses the acronym :) )
so we can service 500 users with between 10 and 100 requests a day.
At least we improve on the paradigms on each iteration. Maybe one day one day both of them will be good enough to let us swing toward something new.
Other than the WSDL/BPEL nonsense, is there any difference between service-oriented architecture and microservices architecture?