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They are services, but not micro. lila-ws spun off of Lila for a good reason (fault isolation) and not because "let's make everything a service". And they don't follow any standard microservice pattern - a reverse proxy isn't a microservice.



this architecture diagram shows that lichess is a traditional monolith with a handful of functions separated.




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