To people from the world of smaller companies, "microservices" means creating a lot of JSON / GraphQL services and trying to make them talk to each other reliab

To people from the world of smaller companies, "microservices" means creating a lot of JSON / GraphQL services and trying to make them talk to each other reliably. People from big companies are also doing microservices but they don't necessarily call it that. They use typed inter-process communication technology such as protocol buffer / thrift etc, and work in a monorepo with statically typed languages. This makes things much more likely to work. I suspect that in general smaller companies doing microservices should move in the direction of what the bigger companies are doing.