As Service-Oriented Architectures gain ground, it becomes obvious that their performance is the key to their success. I'm going to briefly write about two sessions that I attended in JavaOne 2008. They outline two totally different approaches from two very different companies. You're going to see that a well performing SOA implementation requires considerable work and performance tuning expertise.
35 Million Transactions Per Day
In the session entitled “SOA and 35 Million Transactions per Day: Mission Impossible?“, Matthias Schorer from Fiducia IT AG talked about their SOA architecture and how they manage to get a throughput of 35 million transactions per day, a typical day being around 10 hours. If my notes don’t fail me, in Fiducia, they are responsible for 19% of the banking operations in Germany. They manage 101,000 PCs, 54 million bank accounts, billions of transactions every year, 780 cooperative banks, 31 banks over a 510 TB database… To say the least, it is a colossal system.
