Microservices are just Enterprise Java Beans reinvented, but without the efficiency. At least with EJBs we had the option of bypassing the network layer and ha

Microservices are just Enterprise Java Beans reinvented, but without the efficiency. At least with EJBs we had the option of bypassing the network layer and having tightly coupled services communicate directly in-process. Someone looked at that and thought: “Too efficient!” and made the network step mandatory. This is how we ended up with web apps like Jira that take a solid minute to open an empty form.