> Are many small applications running as seperate binaries/processes/on different ports talking to one database endpoint also microservices? One database endpo

> Are many small applications running as seperate binaries/processes/on different ports talking to one database endpoint also microservices? One database endpoint as in ? You can use different schemas and have no relations between tables used by different services, or on the other extreme have services which write to same table. I have read in a book that the most important criteria is independent deployability. I forget the name of the book.