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		pjmlp on May 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Monoliths are not dinosaurs Microservices are rebrandend SOA. We weren't doing Sun RPC, PDO, CORBA and DCOM everywhere for fun, yet with some rebranding, SOA should be the solution for everything.

seabrookmx on May 6, 2023 [–]

I prefer the SOA terminology because as the post you're replying to says, you don't need to make these services too small, whereas "micro" implies that they are.

Monoliths vs microservices is really a spectrum.

pjmlp on May 6, 2023 | [–]

I fully agree with that.

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