<story><title>Everything old is new again: Microservices</title><url>https://blogs.dxc.technology/2018/05/08/everything-old-is-new-again-microservices/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deanCommie</author><text>This is highly misleading.&lt;p&gt;What made &amp;quot;Service-orientated-architecture&amp;quot; stand out in the 90&amp;#x27;s and 2000&amp;#x27;s was standardized communication protocols. It made integrating across teams, and even across companies easier than it&amp;#x27;s ever been before.&lt;p&gt;But there were no best practices around service architecture. Sure, methods were decoupled by responsibility (maybe). But when companies thought about their &amp;quot;Web Service&amp;quot; strategy that meant putting up ONE service exposed to the world, and moving on.&lt;p&gt;Internally, &amp;quot;SOA&amp;quot; meant 1-5 services for a mid-sized shop.&lt;p&gt;This worked for a while until it didn&amp;#x27;t. First, the services became monoliths of conflicting responsibilities, then the mobile revolution and big data led to scalability challenges that the era of SOA never had to consider.&lt;p&gt;THAT is what microservices promised to solve. By being brutal with decomposing and decoupling your concerns you could scale each intelligently and independently. Containers are just an implementation detail, and weren&amp;#x27;t around yet when Microservices first made their impact.&lt;p&gt;Of course, plenty of people don&amp;#x27;t get this. They think of microservices as just another buzzword. So, it&amp;#x27;s been ruined like &amp;quot;agile&amp;quot; has, and you hear companies about their &amp;quot;Microservice architecture&amp;quot;, when really all they&amp;#x27;ve done is migrated their backend to node.js and moved to the cloud.&lt;p&gt;Shame. It&amp;#x27;s a good idea a lot of the time (and sometimes it isn&amp;#x27;t, as with all good ideas).</text></comment>
<story><title>Everything old is new again: Microservices</title><url>https://blogs.dxc.technology/2018/05/08/everything-old-is-new-again-microservices/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve come to terms with the fact that every tech trend is cyclical. Just look at the comeback functional programming is making right now. Or the way we went from thin clients (terminals) to thick clients (PCs) to thin clients (early web pages) to thick clients (progressive web apps). All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.</text></comment>