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If you're distributing something publicly, it's fairly obvious which to pick, yeah.

It's less obvious for internal systems and architecture. For example, your company wants to add domain-specific auditing to all of your existing services. You could have every service add a library dependency that lets them just call `auditor.log(...)` and the library internally writes to storage. Or you could add an auditing service with a full HTTP/GRPC API. Or you could go halfway and build an auditing service but provide a library that acts as an interface.

There's no right answer for this IMO, all those approaches have pros and cons.



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