Microservices Didn't Fail. People Did. (opens in new tab)

The pattern was sound. The history is clear. What broke microservices wasn't the architecture — it was practitioners who applied the deployment unit without the engineering discipline the original authors said it required. There is a version of the microservices post-mortem that treats the pattern itself as the problem. Distributed systems are hard. Eventual consistency is hard. Operational overhead compounds. Better to stay with the monolith. This is the wrong conclusion, drawn from the wron...