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Ask HN: Are Desktop Applications Microservices?

2 pointsby Fr3dd1over 2 years ago
I am aware that this might spark some discussions ;)<p>Daring thesis: if you develop an assamble of old school desktop applications that work together via im- and exports and dont use the same data storage - you are developing microservices. True or false?

3 comments

quickthrower2over 2 years ago
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.
jollyllamaover 2 years ago
It depends on the context.<p>On a resume, no; people are just looking for keywords and will assume you mean the more conventional sense.<p>During the interview, yes. &quot;In a sense, I have worked on microservices, because I have worked on X, which, while not a conventional microservice, is similar.
pestatijeover 2 years ago
Yes, and everything is a file