That was exactly how folks talked about TIBCO. I didn't find it very powerful. I felt it very cumbersome. When you need to think about Day 2 is where everythi

That was exactly how folks talked about TIBCO. I didn't find it very powerful. I felt it very cumbersome. When you need to think about Day 2 is where everything completely collapsed. We were able to pass data around in incredible lightweight ways leveraging Spring sometimes even just leveraging RestRepositories and transforming the object to our data representation by hand, it was never more than 100 lines of code for the entire thing. You could spit one out in an hour...the time was really in composing them and ensuring the architecture reflected the world and was still sensible/manageable. We ultimately faced issues with running microservices and the licensing cost of that. Our enterprise was sadly too big, they didn't realize they needed to price their internal infrastructure competitive to legacy vendors. You could get a WAS box for 50k and cram so much on that server until it was bursting...price didn't change. On the other hand each microservice brought a cost which added up. The economics didn't make sense and it was a new political battle to fight with someone who had zero understanding of marketing what they've built. It just wasn't worth it. Lambdas would have been an option or something more ephemeral/serverless...but the options just weren't there for us at the time. Enter NiFi and this "new data pipeline" and the circus began.