To clarify Microservices please have a read of Martin Folwer's article: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html http://martinfowler.com/articles/mic

To clarify Microservices please have a read of Martin Folwer's article: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html In particular, I like this quote: "The second approach in common use is messaging over a lightweight message bus. The infrastructure chosen is typically dumb (dumb as in acts as a message router only) - simple implementations such as RabbitMQ or ZeroMQ don't do much more than provide a reliable asynchronous fabric - the smarts still live in the end points that are producing and consuming messages; in the services."