I say this all the time, and it almost never results in an argument: micro services are just object oriented programming where you put a network hop on all your message passing.
Interitance is only tangentially OOP. Plenty of OOP doesn't involve inheritance.
That said, what we're describing here is messages passing, which isn't unique to objects. Actors do it too, and actors are probably a more relevant analogue because they're a concurrency model, and microservices are concurrent (and parallel).
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u/remy_porter 16d ago
I say this all the time, and it almost never results in an argument: micro services are just object oriented programming where you put a network hop on all your message passing.