title: What is the difference between microservices and webservices?
body: <p>The closest I got to finding the actual difference is this <a href="http://www.tatvasoft.com/blog/the-difference-between-micro-services-and-web-services/" rel="noreferrer">article</a>.</p>
  
  <p>But I didn't understand what would make me choose one over the other and if microservices can also use a REST API and communicate via http.</p>
  
  <p>I mainly didn't understand what a microservice is and if it can come instead of a webservice, other than the purpose of </p>
  
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    <p>breaking large software applications into loosely coupled modules</p>
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