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by matt_heimer 4479 days ago
No. Pipes are a local only bidirectional data stream meant for inter-process communication. Sockets were created to be the network form of a data stream. You can get data sent over socket connections using things like netcat or ssh-based IO redirection if you want to get a little creative.

If the benefit of a microservice is that you can distribute it across multiple machines then you really just have SOA.