You will often find the [[Create, read, update and delete]] pattern in these types of architectures. # Wikipedia > [!INFO] [Service-oriented architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented%20architecture) > In software engineering, **Service-oriented architecture** (SOA) is an architectural style that supports service orientation. By consequence, it is as well applied in the field of software design where services are provided to the other components by application components, through a communication protocol over a network. A service is a discrete unit of functionality that can be accessed remotely and acted upon and updated independently, such as retrieving a credit card statement online. SOA is also intended to be independent of vendors, products and technologies. > > Service orientation is a way of thinking in terms of services and service-based development and the outcomes of services.