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		scarface74 on April 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: If you only do programming at work, how do... Kubernetes is not as big as the hype makes it out to be. Microservices have been around for over a decade. They were called service oriented architecture and instead of REST with JSON they sending XML.

burntoutfire on April 9, 2020 [–]

I've got a feeling that in the SOA days the services were just "services", not microservices. I.e. people were not pushing for 200 lines of code microservices, like they do now. For example, I have a team of three devs at work who wrote a backend of around 10 microservices... Total cargo cult.

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