It appears to me that this isn't so much a case of "microservices don't work" as it is the case of several poor architectural choices. It is always really easy

It appears to me that this isn't so much a case of "microservices don't work" as it is the case of several poor architectural choices. It is always really easy to be part of the crowd in the peanut gallery and say "hah, you are doing it wrong", but when actually at the coalface the pressures and perspectives are different. Having said that, the microservices story isn't half as interesting as the Centrifuge story they link to in the article. Their approach (queues for everything) didn't work for them at their scale, so they invented something different (Centrifuge) that does. Poorly thought-out choices around microservices has little to do with the issue they solved.