alt Hacker NewsYou are taking the article argument too literally. They meant microservices also in the sense of microlibraries, etc, not strictly a HTTP service.
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benfortuna • today at 10:27 AM
Why arbitrarily invent new meanings (for microservices) and new words (microlibraries) when there are already many adequate ways to describe modular, componentized architecures?
A totally valid and important point but it has been diluted by talking about microservices rather than importance of modular architectures for agent-based coding.
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No, I think you’re not reading it literally enough. “Microservices” generally does mean separate HTTP (or at least RPC) servers. Near the beginning, the article says:
A microservice has a very well-defined surface area. Everything that flows into the service (requests) and out (responses, webhooks)