Service Oriented Architecture with a little help from NodeJS

Gave this 5 minute lightning talk at a Javascript meetup group. It included an example application.
The web application (one service) was a small app built in Python/Flask. The search (a 2nd service) was powered by a Node HTTP server, used as an API to run the site search. Metrics (the third service) were captured using Node's Statsd (open-sourced by Etsy), which can be used safely in Python without fear of causing site crashes due to using UDP (a fire and forget protocol).

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1. SOA
   With a little help from
   

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2. Service-Oriented Architecture
   A software architecture design-pattern
   based on discrete pieces of software
   providing application functionality as
   services to other applications
   

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3. Why SOA?
   • Errors don’t bring down your whole stack*
   • Overloaded services don’t effect everything else*
   • Scale bottleneck services separately from other service*
   • Teams work separately per functional area*
   • Can use the “right tool for the job”*
   *  probably  
   

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4. The Application
   Search  
   Services:
   •  The Site (Python)
   •  Search (Node)
   •  Metrics (Node)
   

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