When I first heard of microservices, it confused the hell out of me when I tried to define my company's code base. In some ways we had microservices, for other

When I first heard of microservices, it confused the hell out of me when I tried to define my company's code base. In some ways we had microservices, for other applications or features we were working on a monolithic service. I used to think it was my lack of understanding, but I eventually realized our code didn't have a binary definition that all the blog posts I was reading seemed to apply to. I feel like we should have been using verbs this whole time. At least when applying it to legacy systems. Similar to say for databases we can normalize data, or denormalize data. Is there a verb for this already?