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Ask HN: Are Desktop Applications Microservices?

2 points by Fr3dd1 ↗ HN
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?

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quickthrower2
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.
jollyllama
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.