"...So what does this mean? The long and short of it is that microservices are an SOA variation for container and cloud computing..." I do not agree with this

"...So what does this mean? The long and short of it is that microservices are an SOA variation for container and cloud computing..." I do not agree with this at all. I think one of the biggest problems microservices face is the over-application of pre-existing paradigms. The failures I see are big object models, large frameworks, dependency on shared resources, complexity in the service, and so forth -- all signs of 90s and 00s thinking moving over to microservices. I agree that everything old is new again. I'd suggest you need to go back further. Good microservices, in my opinion, are not only loosely coupled, any sort of coupling at all is provided by the OS, nothing else. So you'd need to go back to JCL days to find a good analogy for microservices. Trying to stick these other concepts into the microservices bucket looks like a non-starter to me.