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		Thaxll on March 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Mi... Except that they don't really talk to each other and if they do it's using custom protocols. Also I wouldn't call those "micro".

justinsaccount on March 6, 2019 | [–]

They don't talk to each other? So you've never seen an smtp server store its spool on an nfs mount, authenticate against ldap, and log to a remote syslog server?

sbov on March 7, 2019 | [–]

A microservice doesn't have to be micro! They are oftentimes a single bounded context in domain driven design, which can be huge.

newaccoutnas on March 7, 2019 | [–]

So, a service, then?

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