FastSOA : achieving high-performance service oriented architectures

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that aligns IT with business processes in an enterprise. Currently, Logica is involved in multiple SOA projects. As SOA projects grow, so does the need for more employees that have experience with large SOA environments. In SOA, there is taken care of scalability, accessibility, extensibility and maintainability. However, load and performance often are not taken care of. Inexperience with and unclear use of large grown SOA environments may rise the question what happens with the performance of such SOA environments. This was the reason for the following research: “Determine whether a Service Oriented Architecture environment suffers from load and performance issues by looking at it from multiple (4) perspectives. Research how the environment can cope with these possible issues. The results can be used to build high performance SOA environments.”