by Dave Linthicum

Can your SOA Scale? Many Can’t

analysis
Nov 4, 20051 min

Making solutions scale is nothing new. However, the SOA technology and approaches recently employed are largely untested with higher application and information and service management traffic loads. SOA implementers were happy to get their solutions up –and –running, however in many cases scalability is simply not a consideration within the SOA, nor was load testing, or other performance fundamentals. We are see

Making solutions scale is nothing new. However, the SOA technology and approaches recently employed are largely untested with higher application and information and service management traffic loads. SOA implementers were happy to get their solutions up –and –running, however in many cases scalability is simply not a consideration within the SOA, nor was load testing, or other performance fundamentals. We are seeing the results of this neglect now that SOA problem domains are exceeding the capacity of their architectures and the technology. But, I don’t think it has to be this way.