By Richard Hirsch
The [hybris YaaS] architecture also uses micro-services mash-ups to aggregate service calls or to compose more complex service flows that “stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable”. This model was demonstrated by NetFlix in its Hystrix solution) and has been used successfully in numerous environments.
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Note: Currently HCP does not yet support Cloud Foundry so the YaaS Beta doesn’t run on HCP.
As others have discovered, this architecture has broader implications for SAP’s general cloud efforts.
Journalist Jason Bloomberg states:
Not only does YaaS represent a next-generation strategy for hybris, it portends a momentous transformation of the SAP mother ship as well.
Christine Crandell compares YaaS to Force.com and describes YaaS’ differentiators as a threat to Salesforce:
- Independence from the business domain
- Independence from devices
- Pre-build business processes
- Non-proprietary that offers freedom of choice in programming languages, underlying database technology and portability of services and applications between cloud infrastructures.
Read the entire article at http://scn.sap.com/community/cloud/blog/2015/03/03/yaas-hybris-next-generation-cloud-architecture-surfaces-at-sap-s-internal-developer-conferences.
