Microservices 101: The good, the bad and the ugly (ZDNet)

ZDNet has an interview about "microservices" with Red Hat VP of engineering for middleware, Dr. Mark Little. Microservices are a relatively recent software architecture that relies on small, easily replaced components and is an alternative to the well-established service-oriented architecture (SOA)—but it is not a panacea: "'Just because you adopt microservices doesn't suddenly mean your badly architected ball of mud is suddenly really well architected and no longer a ball of mud. It could just be lots of distributed balls of mud,' Little said. 'That worries me a bit. I've been around service-oriented architecture for a long time and know the plus points and the negative points. I like microservices because it allows us to focus on the positive points but it does worry me that people see it as the answer to a lot of problems that it's never going to be the answer for.'"

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