SOA and microservices can also exist side by side, but these frameworks are not the same thing. It's important to know the difference between them, and especially between microservices and ...

Microservices vs SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) As it turns out, the difference between microservice architecture and service oriented architecture — also known as SOA — is relatively small.

RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady has entered the debate on SOA versus microservices and agrees with many others that the size of a service is neither a necessary nor sufficient differentiation.