When microservices were new they brought a whole slew of new technologies and architecture patterns with them: SPAs, JWT authentication, micro frameworks, REST/

When microservices were new they brought a whole slew of new technologies and architecture patterns with them: SPAs, JWT authentication, micro frameworks, REST/Graphql, containerization. Things that solved problems people were having with the previous monolithic approach, all above the lack of maintainability and composability. So I see the term microservice today not as something that's measured in lines of code, but above all by embracing the new technology landscape that came from it.