You're not going to do Microservices

Seems like every 5 to 10 years our industry, especially in the Enterprise Integration, or enterprise application space, we get introduced to some new methodology or architectural style that's the best since sliced bread and will make you 10x more productive and make your enterprise more agile, flexible, able to respond to change, and whatever else that CIOs are willing to spend gobs of money on. We've seen Enterprise Application Integration, Web Services, SOA, Component based architectures, ESBs, and on and on. Today: Microservices Well, guess what: chances are you're not going to get microservices architecture right. Honestly, I'm not saying that to dump cold water on your burning desire to try out new things. I do think there is legitimacy to microservices and it's an approach that grew organically over the years of watching failed committee-driven implementations. But guess what? There is a foundation of pre-requisites that must be in place first beforehand to be successful with this architecture (or any architecture :) ) that, based on my observation, is lacking at more places than it's prevailing. By all means, fire up Spring Boot or Dropwizard, or no container. You're not doing microservices just because you're following the lemmings away from the App Server. Places like Netflix, Amazon, etc seem to have some of the right combination of pre-requisites to make it work... But ask your VPs of engineering, ask your Directors of computing what they would say if their internal teams were organized like Amazon. They would spoil their pants. Your company probably doesn't and probably won't get microservices right. Most organizations are not structured for microservices We all hear about Conway's law, but this fact is the strongest reason why you're not going to do microservices. People win. Culture wins. Paper processes and paper structure does not win. If you have a UI team, DB team,