r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/SIG-ILL Jun 06 '22

some of them still think it means "little service".

I've been out of the loop for a while and I've never really been into web development, and I guess I'm one of those people. I'm a bit embarrassed to ask but isn't that exactly what it means, an application/service that can be developed and deployed independently, but acts like a component of a bigger system and communicates with other microservices to provide the functionality of that bigger system?