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NB: one may also just call them “services” with no practical loss of generality and sounding less like technobabble to everyone else.

Problem is that SOA has been around for decades whereas “microservices” sounds hip and cutting-edge

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I think the SOA/microservices distinction has to do with the patterns of architecture more than anything else. (For example, the enterprise service bus is... well, ignore that if you squint it looks a bit like the service mesh and Kafka in a sufficiently complex microservice system.)

There’s no distinction anymore , just like DevOps is now a role not a movement, and hacker is a criminal not a maker. You can’t fight the natural language evolution when it’s buzzwords that people get hired on.

> “microservices” sounds hip and cutting-edge

Maybe 8 years ago it did.

I was definitely contemplating the definition of microservices back in 2012. I think Netflix had been blogging about it then, or just before.

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