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).

Transcript

1. SOA With a little help from
2. Service-Oriented Architecture A software architecture design-pattern based on discrete pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications
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  
4. The Application Search   Services: •  The Site (Python) •  Search (Node) •  Metrics (Node)