In my recent trip to London to present at the 5th International SOA Symposium and 4th International Cloud Symposium, I observed more than 100 organizations participated with keynotes speakers from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency. Service design principles have been applied successfully in many industries including Life Sciences and Astronomy.

After the meetings, I visited University of Cambridge where Charles Darwin hypothesized biological evolution by natural selection and Stephen Hawking evangelized the Big Bang theory about the origin of the Universe. The trip prompted me to believe the Universe and life on earth were created and evolved by mass customization - a process to transform from singular, basic and generic to diversified, complex and more specific forms.

I will first explore component architecture of the Universe and life, and then discuss the concept of Service Component Architecture, major vendors and business applications. After reading the article, the readers should have a holistic view about the Universe, life and Service Orientation.

Learn about how Node.js and Socket.IO can be used to consume data directly from the Web and then broadcast the data to connected clients. You will be working with Twitter’s streaming Application Programming Interface (API) and pushing data out to the browser in real-time.

The purpose of this article is to highlight and discuss the considerations that are required to make the appropriate choice among reusing, buying, or building components and services.

Kjell and Jean-Jacques revisit the concept of compatible contract based on XML, XML Schema and WSDL extensibility to foster service reuse and complement Governance.