Ask HN: Any veteran feedback from the SOA era?

[mackwic]

My old grumpy mentor from France Télécom was often joking about the failure of the SOA Java stack (and particularly the state of RPC and Service Buses).

I don't remember his argumentation, but now that microservices put back SOA in fashion, I would like to hear some feedbacks and opinions about it.

What's different now which makes SOA more relevant ? What was good about the old tooling ? There's some very good pieces of blog about SOA architectures out there, are they still relevant ?

[mackwic]

This is relevant to the discussion:

- http://udidahan.com/2007/12/29/wcf-everywhere-not-on-my-watc... (MS SOA technology)

- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-mar/...

- Also this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25501098/difference-betwe...

- http://service-architecture.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/microserv...