Everything I know about microservices stems from 2 quotes. One is an excerpt of _The Fifth Elephant_ by Terry Pratchett: "This, milord, is my family's axe. W

Everything I know about microservices stems from 2 quotes. One is an excerpt of _The Fifth Elephant_ by Terry Pratchett: "This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation... but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good." And the other is a tweet from Honest Status Pages (@honest_update) We replaced our monolith with micro services so that every outage could be more like a murder mystery.