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How a network protocol is more specified that a procedure call?

• tannhaeuser 8y ago
  It's not. The benefit is that - you can keep a service running long after the project that created it has disbanded and/or the runtime and build environment is deprecated on a given O/S - you don't necessarily need to deep-dive into the business logic of legacy services - you can replace a service implementation with another one running on another stack without having to adapt service clients - you can change auth mechanism outside of the service implementations - you can scale out (CPU-bound) services onto multiple hosts Mind you, these benefits are not achieved by using microservices/SOA in itself; the contribution of microservices/SOA, however, is that these design goals aren't impossible to achieve because of architected reasons.