Ask HN: Are Desktop Applications Microservices?

I vote false. To me microservices means small applications that are run as servers that individually provide just a piece of an overall application via a network based API.

It depends on the context.

On a resume, no; people are just looking for keywords and will assume you mean the more conventional sense.

During the interview, yes. "In a sense, I have worked on microservices, because I have worked on X, which, while not a conventional microservice, is similar.

Yes, and everything is a file