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Were microservices a thing back in 2005? Honest question, I always assumed that SOA was more of a newer philosophy in web software. The scale of what we build h
by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Were microservices a thing back in 2005? Honest question, I always assumed that SOA was more of a newer philosophy in web software. The scale of what we build has changed a lot over the years, as well as the need to handle the variance of scale through techniques like auto-scaling. All of that adds an incredible amount of complexity in systems that surely didn't exist 18 years ago.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoI don't think SOA was in common discussion in 2005, I think more about 2007 would sound right, Rest was pretty much the winner by 2009. But perhaps my memories here are warped by my personal career and not having to have the arguments after 2009. No I don't think microservices was anywhere at that time, although one could argue that they are a repackaging of the ideas of Small Pieces, Loosely Joined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Pieces_Loosely_Joined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Pieces_Loosely_Joined or an architectural expression of loose coupling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_coupling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_coupling for corporate data.