There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade i

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks Sussman summed up the problem nicely: "We really don't know how to compute!" So we latch onto whatever semi-plausible idea some consultant cooks up, like flowcharts, structured programming, agile, object-oriented programming, test-driven development, microservices, and countless other things. Microservices impose a transport layer over whatever it is you were doing before. So that's one extra point of failure that you've got to contend with. Complex problems require complex solutions. Sure, there are better and worse ways of doing things, but there are no miracles.