You can get those with a straight library without introducing the complexity of message-passing, RPCs, and distributed systems.
(I'm a big fan of SOAs/microservices for companies that operate at Google-scale. Most companies do not, and for the rest of us - plain old libraries are very underrated. You can always slap an RPC layer or message broker on top of a library's API, but there's no reason to pay that cost until you need to. The real reason to break things up into microservices is when you run out of RAM on the box, or alternatively when you want better cache hit rates by focusing the processor on a small amount of code. You typically don't get there until you're serving thousands of QPS against a data set in the terabytes.)
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You can get those with a straight library without introducing the complexity of message-passing, RPCs, and distributed systems.
(I'm a big fan of SOAs/microservices for companies that operate at Google-scale. Most companies do not, and for the rest of us - plain old libraries are very underrated. You can always slap an RPC layer or message broker on top of a library's API, but there's no reason to pay that cost until you need to. The real reason to break things up into microservices is when you run out of RAM on the box, or alternatively when you want better cache hit rates by focusing the processor on a small amount of code. You typically don't get there until you're serving thousands of QPS against a data set in the terabytes.)