Service-Oriented Architecture, often known simply as SOA, can be thought of as a city of services. In this city, each service is like a shop. Every shop provides a unique product or service but doesn't worry about the other shops around it. Instead, it focuses on doing its own job really well. So, SOA is about creating independent services that work together in a large system. Now, where would you find SOA being used? Imagine big companies with different departments, like finance, human resources, or sales. Each department uses different software. With SOA, these different pieces of software can communicate…