The San Francisco PHP Meetup Group

SF PHP Meetup June 2008 - Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Jun '08 5 Thu 7:00 PM

Location: CBS Interactive

235 2nd St
San Francisco, CA 94105
415.344.2000

Attendance: 91 people attended.
4.5025 (25 ratings)
Who organized?
Mike Tougeron

Joe Stump from Digg will be presenting his talk on SOA to our group this month.

Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the idea of loosely coupling your data production from your data consumption. This is normally done by hiding your data behind an HTTP server and using web services calls to access your data.

The benefits of SOA are numerous: ? Parallel asynchronous requests to your data ? Decouple your code from your data layer ? Abstract scalability into the services layer. The addition of abstracting your scalability into the services layer lets you put your senior engineers in charge of scaling, caching, queries, etc. while allowing your other developers to focus on creating features rather than when to expire a cache or which index to use in MySQL.

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When you arrive, please look for the PHP Meetup sign pointing you to the conference room.

Look forward to seeing you there!

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Rosemarie McKeon
Great presentation!

Posted Jun 18, 2008 8:36 PM

Who attended?

91 attendees
- Ian Shields
  
  “ These things are fun, even when it's 75% over my head (I'm just a beginner/intermediate PHP coder). Enjoyed the friendly, funny vibe, and the speaker was very good. ”
- Johan Mickelin
  
  “ Very interesting and useful ”
- Dennis McEntire (+1 guest)
  
  “ I enjoyed the presentation immensely and learned quite a bit from the knowledge shared by the speaker. ”
- Michael
  
  “ I learned alot and plan to implement it at work. ”
- John Dunham
  
  “ Very good presentation! Joe made a great point about how, once you've implemented a SOA architecture for your app, as Digg has, a lot of the tough problems of scaling can be managed by a small number of highly skilled infrastructure developers. This enables you to hire UI developers who focus on cranking out features, rather than solving scalability issues. These UI developers are relatively easy to find. The result is that SOA helps companies break their hiring logjam by letting them tap into a bigger market of developers. That's a very interesting "big idea" of how SOA has pay for itself. Additionally, there were lots of practical tips about which libraries to use implement SOA with PHP, as well as some code review. ”
- barce
  
  “ Joe Stump is a great speaker and presenter. I would love to hear him again. He kept the presentation short and sweet, and was great at answering questions. I learned about scalability strategies that I can take with me to work tomorrow. ”
- Justin Patrin
  
  “ I didn't know what SOA was until Joe's presentation. Very helpful and entertaining. ”
- John
  
  “ I actually sell and program SOA based enterprise solutions in J2EE in my day job. This was a great chance to get the real-world perspective of someone doing it on a major site using my preferred personal project language, PHP. ”
- Sean McCann
  
  “ It was a great talk, but the best part was hearing the internals of Digg. ”
- Mike Tougeron
- Chris C
- Jaime
- Kuassi Mensah
- Charlie
- philhardaker
- Christopher Peri
- Arin
- Ryan Ausanka-Crues
- Andrei
- Steve Shaw
- Michael Malone
- Dadisi
- Brion
- Dan O.
- Chris Tower
- Ian Seabock
- tom wang
- Viktor Godard
- Ron Ludwig
- Tish Wood
- Brad
- Andrew Headrick (+1 guest)
- Pinaki Ray
- Firebrand
- Nilesh Dosooye
- Ian Brown
- Michael
- Rosemarie McKeon
- Kelvin Wong
- Hourann Bosci
- victor (+1 guest)
- ransom1538
- Milena
- Douglas
- Matthew Hooker
- Steffen Frost
- Stefan
- Dennis Harvey
- Sam McAfee
- Steve Crawford