title: When to use SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
body: <p>I had a conversation with one of our architects recently and he summarized his use of SOA as "The only time we'll use services is when we need async actions otherwise we'll use go direct to the data store"</p>
  
  <p>I thought about this statement and it seems fairly logical as services work well in a publish subscribe model, but I was wondering in what other scenarios you should be looking to use SOA?</p>