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Are Windows services considered micro-services?

I have a Windows service that listens on a queue; when there is a new message, it parses it, and stores it in its own storage.

It's "uni-directional" in the sense that it just listens on a queue, but doesn't expose any endpoint and it doesn't interact with other services.

Is this considered a micro-service?

Solution

  • As the name implies any service which is not monolithic, which can be independently built and deployable can be a microservice.

    There is 12 factor approach to be called a true micro service, https://www.nginx.com/blog/microservices-reference-architecture-nginx-twelve-factor-app/