> There's no need for half of the word to exist. Yes there is. A service is a very generic concept to the point it's only relevant as a high-level concept. Th

> There's no need for half of the word to exist. Yes there is. A service is a very generic concept to the point it's only relevant as a high-level concept. The concept of a microservice makes all the sense in the world if you look back to where we came from: web services. When compared with all the work and requirements and complications of using SOAP and WSDL and UDDI and everything around, just sending small JSON payloads around, and the ability to peel off smaller services leveraging that architecture approach, was a far lighter and uncomplicated way of doing business. I mean, the name microservices becomes obvious once you look back and all that you see is macroservices.