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People here keep on repeating that statement, yet people actually implementing microservices keep on believing it is a solution for an architectural problem. If they majority keeps on implementing microservices for the wrong reasons then who's right? What you describe is just classic SOA. Then what are "microservices" exactly?

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Microservice architecture is SOA for the 2010s--it's basically agile-ized SOA.

Key features are domain focused services, DevOps friendly deployment via containerization, and continuous integration.

Kind of, and without the API contracts that allowed to make sense out of SOA, many agile-ized APIs end up looking like doing dynamic programming at scale with a network on the middle and plenty of HTTP 500 when things go wrong.

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