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You definitely have a valid point there about these services being entity based. Unfortunately there isn't much I can do to fix these boundaries. Many of these services are management for 3rd party systems which have their own databases that I'm connecting to. These 3rd party services form an physically interconnected/dependent system of their own and my services are used to provide customer support and the support agents need to be able to do some cross referencing between these systems. To do that I had to reference data in other services directly (which I didn't want to do) Cont...

grimurd
– grimurd

2018-02-20 20:03:25 +00:00
Commented Feb 20, 2018 at 20:03
The only way I can see is to create another entity to contain these relationships and another service for managing those entities that could fetch the required data from all the other services. But that still feels like I'm only moving the problem around. On your other point, value-chain-analysis. The business is very small and mostly based around a single source of revenue which all these services are for. Would probably work better in a bigger more diverse business. But these SOA posts are very interesting, I'll have to read those. Thanks for your response.

grimurd
– grimurd

2018-02-20 20:19:39 +00:00
Commented Feb 20, 2018 at 20:19

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