"By being brutal with decomposing and decoupling your concerns you could scale each intelligently and independently." Yep. This is the first concept he misses.

"By being brutal with decomposing and decoupling your concerns you could scale each intelligently and independently." Yep. This is the first concept he misses. "They think of microservices as just another buzzword. " And this is the second one. What he's describing as SOA doesn't match what I've seen. Even your 1-5 services example is rare. It was mostly taking a buzzword, loading up on some tooling, and cranking WSDLs. You could end up with dozens of those little rascals right out of the starting gate. (It should have been 1-5, agreed. I just never saw it work like that in shops of any significant size)