Or hardware. I worked on an HPC product which used "microservices" of a kind but many of them were tied to specific hardware nodes. So much of what we think of

Or hardware. I worked on an HPC product which used "microservices" of a kind but many of them were tied to specific hardware nodes. So much of what we think of as "microservices" relies on a fairly narrow set of assumptions, and mostly makes sense in specific contexts, i.e. cloud, APIs, etc.