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I am skeptical regarding the claims made for microservices. In the past, we have had CORBA, DCOM, RMI, .Net remoting, OLE, DCE/RPC and a bunch of other distributed component architectures. None have been what I would call roaring successes. Having small bits of code that communicate via network messages is not an especially efficient way of doing things compared to function calls. And quite a bit more complex too. Proponents of such architectures always claim fewer dependencies, scalability, etc. Paraphrasing Leslie Lamport: A distributed system is one in which my application won't work because some machine I never heard of is down. Building secure, reliable, performant distributed systems is /hard/.
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