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Comment by gizzlon | Hacker News Reader

yeah, but is that microservices? This is what we did the first place I worked, 15 years ago.

It was called modular design. I think the main difference with micro services is the accessibility on the network. I would like to be corrected if I am wrong.

My question was rhetorical, to be honest :) point being that the only new thing, if any, with microservices is that they should be micro and you should have a lot of them.

People have been running >1 services for a long time. Sometimes calling it SOA and sometimes calling it nothing, just doing it because it made sense.

Totally agree, I find a lot of tech is like fashion - leaving and returning again later with a new cooler name.

  just doing it because it made sense.

This ^^. Call it what you like - if it works, it works

Microservices are indepently deployable modules. Thus the same principles of modular design in a monolith apply. So, yes, you're correct with the network part.

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