Ask HN: Are Desktop Applications Microservices?
I am aware that this might spark some discussions ;)
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? 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