Recent years have been marked by microservices. Who among you hasn’t heard of them? They were everywhere – at conferences, groups, job listings, coffee talks, and blog posts. At some point it got to the point where if you weren’t working on a system composed of microservices, it was kind of a problem – you felt the world was getting away from you, and your colleagues were in another galaxy. Someone found a silver bullet for the design of IT systems. On the other...