&gt; Or is it just a more modern, streamlined buzzword?<p>You&#x27;d be surprised how many people taking the &quot;micro service&quot; bait have never heard of an n-tier architecture or even SOA. I pity the next generation of developers that will have to maintain all that micro-servicing mess developed today.<p>Instead of relying on a simple architecture with messaging and workers, micro-service evangelists are turning maintenance and deployment of applications into a nightmare for the sake of being hip.<p>I won&#x27;t even talk about amazon lambda which is the &quot;acme&quot; of vendor lock in .