Yes, it is an app. Not a 'microservice'. That's the point.
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Microservices are called that because they reside within an app that itself provides a service. Otherwise, of course you could call everything and anything 'microservice' but then the term would become meaningless.
But with microservices coupling is as loose as possible.
Your authentication microservice provides an interface (REST or whatever) independent on the underlying implementation and it does not matter how it implemented. As long has the interface 'contract' is fulfilled you can re-implement it from Java to Rails, or move it from here to there, if you wish and that is completely transparent to all other microservices.
Microservices are services within an application.
It is only 'inevitable' because no-one has cared about it and, worse because some try to downplay the issue.
I did not accuse you personally, but you also did not say that it was inevitable, you spread the opinion that it was fine.
Those who claim that it is all good are pushing us to the abyss.
Edit: Downvoting the inconvenient truth won't make it go away.
But top places like London now attract from a global pool of billions.
People need to realise that a world with 10 billion does not look like a world with 2 billion.
Lastly, the planet has trouble with us now... It's terrorism to suggest that 10 billion is just fine.
"The median estimate for future growth sees the world population reaching 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100" (2017)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
The massive change in urbanisation is happening in developing countries. In developed countries it happened earlier and is not really a thing anymore.
If you look at London (since that's essentially the article), population has actually only reached back to its 1950 level.
But attractive cities can now pull people and investment from a global pool of billions of people and thus the market does its thing and prices move accordingly.
This is called "joint and several liability" and is the legal position for many agreements when a party is made of several people (at least in the UK).
For example, people sharing a flat/house as renters will have the same liability unless they have separate tenancies. This is extremely common but surprisingly many people have no clue about it and think that they are fine paying "their share" of the rent.
This is a bad joke.
If they want to be taken seriously they should protest outside school hours, that'd show their grit and motivation, instead of wasting the good fortune they have to be in school in the first place.
Stay in school, study hard, make a difference.
You won't achieve anything by hurting yourself and your parents who pay for your education.
Based on that surveillance does work.
The question is rather at what level surveillance does not meaningfully reduce crime anymore but becomes a (political) control tool.
If a unit test fails when the code under test hasn't functionally changed then it means that your unit tests are flaky.
These are attributes that 80% of projects and teams lack so when they decide to jump onto the microservices bandwagon the shit hits the fan pretty quickly.
It's a system introduced by the Republic of China, and tha continues to be used in the Republic of China (only Taiwan left these days).
That's because the mainland switched to Pinyin in the 50s.
That being said, Taiwan has now also officially switched to Pinyin so use may increase.
Edit:
Another interesting, and old, system to write Mandarin using the Arabic alphabet: Xiao'erjing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao%27erjing
Edit 2:
Bopomofo is in the same line as Hiragana/Katakana/Korean system: It simplifies and make things phonetic but still creates a brand new characters set inspired by Chinese characters.
With Pinyin, to me the main development was to integrate that there was already an ubiquitous alphabet in existence, the latin alphabet, that could be used and save the trouble of yet another writing system.
A bit like what happened in Vietnam (though obviously that's because a Frenchman came up with the system).
The issue is personal rights vs. general good.
In the end an individual's liberty ends when his actions are having a serious negative impact on the community.
1980 - 4.4 billion
2019 - 7.7 billion
This has a massive impact on our environmental footprint and on climate change.
But, right, let's not intrude into a person's life, that would be abhorrent...
Now, the _facts_ are that the policy did have a real, significant impact. And that has benefited mankind as a whole.
But, OK, let's say it was useless... I cannot be said to have been disastrous, then, can it?
The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.
A lot of these punishments seem targeted at the middle class and business people by forcing them to go down a peg or two if they don't abide by the rules. It's making them lose face, which is something very important in China.