&gt;It makes me wonder if the &quot;microservice&quot; part of it was necessary. What if they had produced &quot;microlibraries&quot; rather than &quot;microservices?&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve wondered that every single time somebody has touted the benefits of microservices.<p>The people who have really &#x27;succeeded&#x27; in it seem to conflate the benefits of looser coupling between dependent software systems (which is always a good thing) and making those systems talk to one another over a network socket (which isn&#x27;t necessarily a good thing).