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by chrisrhoden 1934 days ago
The definition being used here for libraries and services has both being marketed to developers. We're talking about APIs, not a web product with a UI etc.

Services, in this article, doesn't refer to things that can only be built as services (e.g. because it queries a proprietary dataset) but those that might optionally be built as services (e.g. fetching and processing otherwise accessible data) and could, as easily, be built as a library.