I think this is the first time I've really understood the differences between SOA and Microservices (and realized that my workplace's architecture is a flavor o

I think this is the first time I've really understood the differences between SOA and Microservices (and realized that my workplace's architecture is a flavor of Microservice). "On the surface, the Microservice architecture pattern is similar to SOA. With both approaches, the architecture consists of a set of services. However, one way to think about the Microservice architecture pattern is that it’s SOA without the commercialization and perceived baggage of web service specifications (WS-) and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Microservice-based applications favor simpler, lightweight protocols such as REST, rather than WS-. They also very much avoid using ESBs and instead implement ESB-like functionality in the microservices themselves. The Microservice architecture pattern also rejects other parts of SOA, such as the concept of a canonical schema." So SOA implies the existence of some heavy enterprise tools like WSDL and SOAP or other RPC type systems. Microservices favor RESTful interfaces.