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Re:Colossus: A New Service Framework from Tumblr by remon on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @08:24AM (#8623737)
You'll struggle to find a definition of microservices that everyone will agree on. I'd say microservices are lightweight, isolated units of business logic that can communicate with other such microservices through a well defined interface. I'm sure smarter people than myself can come up with a better definition though.
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Re:Colossus: A New Service Framework from Tumblr by amelius on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @09:14AM (#8623878)
Well, under your definition, just any piece of code could be a microservice...

So not very enlightening yet :)

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Re:Colossus: A New Service Framework from Tumblr by tekacs on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @10:30AM (#8624229)
Part of the notion is that any piece of code _can_ be a microservice. The way our framework does it, very nearly any function can trivially be turned into a microservice.

It becomes a _service_ once it gains communications and a global name, perhaps?

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