Design Patterns - Service Layer

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Published on 2012-12-07T19:56:28Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 23:43 UTC
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I currently reading a lot about Design Patterns and I have been watching various Pluralsight videos from their library. Now so far I have learnt the following:

Repository Pattern
Unit of Work Pattern
Abstract Factory Pattern
Reading the awesome "DI in .NET" book

Now I read lot about Services and Service Layers and wanted some advice about the best place to read up and learn about these. I presume this fits into Domain Driven Design and I should start there? The term "Service" just seem to be used widely within IT and it can be confusing the exact meaning.

So my questions is:

What is the Service Layer
Where is the best place to learn about them. I know there are probably tonnes of interweb/books/blogs on the subject, but some good areas to start from would be nice.

If I'm being too vague, let me know.

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