  In the field of microservices, Model-Driven Engineering has emerged as a
powerful methodology for architectural design, and new programming languages
have introduced language abstractions to deal with microservice development
more effectively. In this article, we present the first preliminary
investigation of how the two approaches can be married, taking the LEMMA
framework and the Jolie programming language as respective representatives. By
developing a conceptual metamodel for Jolie, we elicit a strong link between
the two approaches, which shows that there is much to gain. We discuss a few
low-hanging fruits that come from our finding and present some interesting
future directions that arise from our new viewpoint.
