There was a period of time when Service had a different meaning than microservice. A service traditionally may exist across bounded contexts and be almost a min

There was a period of time when Service had a different meaning than microservice. A service traditionally may exist across bounded contexts and be almost a mini-monolith whereas a strict microservice should touch very few data models and exist strictly in a bounded context. Of course real life is messy and plenty of people realized writing small single purpose services was valuable, and plenty of people build giant "microservices" that have nothing to do with the original term and are just badly constructed monoliths.