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    It's for all of these reasons that I view microservices as a specific solution to a specific problem (scaling via distributed computing), and not as an overall application architecture. Commented Aug 30, 2017 at 17:47
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    Enh, they've got a widespread enough impact that I think that they should be viewed as an application architecture with scalability/distributed computing as an upside (with complexity and other downsides as the trade off). Commented Aug 30, 2017 at 17:52
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    So from an architectural point of view, microservices are standalone micro systems doing one thing, while SOA are monolithic applications with multiple services exposed to consumers? Commented Aug 30, 2017 at 17:57
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    I am more confused now! Is it possible for a monolithic application to expose microservices? or does it have to be standalone micro applications? Commented Aug 31, 2017 at 14:26
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    Take a look at this article in DZone Microservices vs SOA. Commented Sep 1, 2017 at 7:17