I had trouble making the jump here from SOA to k8s. Those are orthogonal things. What a monolith solves and what microservices solve are also orthogonal things.

I had trouble making the jump here from SOA to k8s. Those are orthogonal things. What a monolith solves and what microservices solve are also orthogonal things. Many companies move to microservices so that they can evolve different parts of their platform at different rates, and invest differently in different business domains and product applications. Attracting talent for a problem in higher demand is one example of the lever you can pull, but so is writing a part of the application in R for data science or Java for stream processing, and hiring from a richer or different talent pool as a result.