Yep, just like I was creating HTTP URL based services to run remote processing and return resulting data before the term web service or REST service ever came about and before XML and JSON were the thing.
Now they're called MicroServices. Yawn 😊
But it does sound cool !!
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message: 4
date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:14:02 -0500
from: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: What are micro-services?
I see them exactly as Google suggest.. small little applications that do certain things (figure tax, shipping, exchange rates, etc). Not the best examples, but all I could think of off hand.
I was doing (and still do) a similar thing, although local, with a lot of my web development years ago using a lot of Server Side Includes (SSIs). I say "local" because using SSIs you couldn't make requests outside of your domain. But each little piece of the web site was an SSI that did a specific job (displayed the header, footer, user id, etc). Then building sites was as simple as popping SSIs (static or dynamic) into your table design (now DIVs, though).
So I see micro services similar to that, only your requests can be made anywhere to retrieve information. Maybe even down to something as simple as providing an image or js library to your application.
In other words, something we've been doing for a long time, and now it's just relabeled with a "cool" buzz word.. ;)
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