Yes, a lot of organizations already design their backends in this way without necessarily thinking to use a brand new term to describe it. Cockcroft defines a

Yes, a lot of organizations already design their backends in this way without necessarily thinking to use a brand new term to describe it. Cockcroft defines a microservices architecture as a service-oriented architecture composed of loosely coupled elements that have bounded contexts. To me this just reads as "service-oriented architecture in a sensible way". No one thinks to intentionally build a SOA with tightly coupled components with poor boundaries.