I think microservices is a new evolution of an old idea, that is growing to term in an environment that could allow it to blossom. As I posted elsewhere here,

I think microservices is a new evolution of an old idea, that is growing to term in an environment that could allow it to blossom. As I posted elsewhere here, microservices are also explicit about being remote calls, and are built with the idea of assuming all your calls are always remote. For instance, Docker is already built using a microservice architecture, and they are standardising that as a project called LibChan : https://github.com/docker/libchan https://github.com/docker/libchan It's basically msgpack over SPDY+TLS, all the way down the stack. disclaimer: I am one of the co-founders of jsChan, the node.js/javascript port of libchan. https://github.com/GraftJS/jschan https://github.com/GraftJS/jschan