Difference between Micro Service and Web Services

Micro web services and Web services are two different concepts of application development architecture, Which can be differentiated from it's development style and layered architecture.In This article I will explain the difference between Web Services and Micro Services

Web Services ?

Web services are services that are made available from a business's Web server for Web users or other Web-connected programs. it is a way to expose the functionality of an application to other application, without a user interface. It is a service which exposes an API over HTTP.

Web Services allow applications developed in different technologies to communicate with each other through a common format like XML, Jason, etc. 

Web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language. For example, an application developed in Java can be used in C#, Android, Php etc., and vice versa. 

Web Service is a connection technology, a way to connect services together into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Micro Services ?

Micro Service is independently deployable service. It is a method of breaking large software applications into loosely coupled modules, in which each service runs a unique process and communicates through APIs. It can be developed using messaging or event-driven APIs, or using non-HTTP backed RPC mechanisms.

Microservices allow large systems to be built up from a number of collaborating components.

Micro Services are designed to cope with failure and breakdowns of large applications. Since multiple unique services are communicating together, it may happen that a particular service fails, but the overall larger applications remain unaffected by the failure of a single module.

For example imagine an online shop with separate microservices for user-accounts, product-catalog, order-processing and shopping carts.