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What is the difference between Spring Boot and Microservices?

Spring Boot is a FRAMEWORK for building applications quickly with minimal configuration — it works equally well for a monolith or a single microservice. Microservices is an ARCHITECTURAL STYLE for structuring an entire system as a collection of small, independently deployable services — Spring Boot is simply a popular, convenient tool for implementing each individual microservice in that architecture, not a requirement of the architecture itself.

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What is the difference between Spring Boot and Microservices?

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