Remember when microservices were called components?

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5 years ago

I came across this article written in 2001 about scaling e-commerce: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2591575/scaling-up-for-e-commerce.html. The concept of microservices is being talked about but referred to as components! Quite nostalgic...

"A component is simply a chunk of software that performs work or provides information within a wider application. A component could be the user interface on an order entry system, the rules for how and when to increase a customer's credit limit, or a data warehouse detailing every customer transaction conducted during the past five years.

"According to several IT managers and analysts, to build a scalable Web architecture, managers should think of components not in terms of the software on which they're based but in terms of the services they provide."

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