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Microservices — architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes

Some recent backtracking from what we have been calling "Microservices" has sparked anew the debate around that software architecture pattern. It turns out that for increasingly more software people, having a backend with (sometimes several) hundreds of services wasn't that great an idea after all. The debate has been going on for a while and much has already been said, but there are still a couple of things I'd like to say.