Too Long; Didn't Read
These days one can scarcely attend a conference or browse the front page of HackerNews without running into microservices. Proponents tout its preternatural ability to enforce <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/modularity" target="_blank">modularity</a>, scale systems, and scale organizations and processes. Of course, microservices is just a rebranding of the older Service-Oriented Architecture paradigm, and no one is quite sure what “micro” means in the first place, but lets ignore that for now. I have seen the same fallacious arguments repeated again and again when it comes to microservices, so I finally decided I had to write a rebuttal.