The View from the Boathouse

I just went looking for my notorious "SOA is Dead" blog post from 2009 and found that it's no longer available. I found it using the wayback machine, so I'm reposting it here for posterity. January 05, 2009 SOA is Dead; Long Live Services Blogger:  Anne Thomas Manes Obituary: SOA SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”.   Once thought to be the savior of IT, SOA instead turned into a great failed experiment—at least for most organizations. SOA was supposed to reduce costs and increase agility on a massive scale. Except in rare situations, SOA has failed to deliver its promised benefits. After investing millions, IT systems are no better than before. In many organizations, things are worse: costs are higher, projects take longer, and systems ar...