Difference between microservices and services?

Question

Backend

Hello! Looking through vacancies for a back-end developer, I am faced with the requirement of the ability to develop microservices or services, and I would like to know what is their difference, or in fact they are not?

Answer 1

Microservices are obviously the same services. Perhaps here we are talking about a microservice architecture, when one large service is broken into many independent microservices (similar to how a torrent works without a server).

Answer 2

A service is a very general concept of "something that provides services". This often refers to a web application built according to SOA principles . A microservice is a special case of a service built according to the principles of microservice architecture .