In the robotics world it's pretty common to have something that looks a lot like microservices as an organizing principle. ROS[1] would probably the robotics f

In the robotics world it's pretty common to have something that looks a lot like microservices as an organizing principle. ROS[1] would probably the robotics framework that everybody cuts their teeth on and in that you have a number of processes communicating over a pub/sub network. Some of the reasons for organizing this way would be familiar to someone doing websites, but you also have factors like vendors for sensors you need providing libraries that will occasionally segfault, and needing to be able to recover from that. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Operating_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Operating_System