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This is the eternal discussion, should services be functionally named, or given abstract, possible descriptive, names? Personally, I think that (micro)services should be given abstract names. From experience I do see that it has quite some advantages, which I will try to illustrate with simple examples. It frees one’s mind of unconscious biases. What I mean with this, is that if you call a service to its initial functionality, my mind tends to limit the functionality to something that is part of the domain the service is named after....

One question that each developer should ask himself is: “Am I a carpenter or a cabinet builder?”. It might seem a silly question, but there is a difference. It isn’t the case that one is better than the other. This question isn’t about quality of work. When asking this, we also don’t worry about any compensation that one might get. So let me illustrate what I see as the difference....