Plenty of comments here have documented the headaches around microservices and predict a shift back to monoliths.
However an alternate perspective is the microservices were not micro enough to make it worth the overhead + cost. My opinion is the reason this none of this feels great is because a container is not small enough of a base unit to enable you to completely forget about infrastructure.
That's why I'm betting the next paradigm that gains traction is fully serverless architectures. The overall direction things have been going for decades is to make hardware more invisible and I think we finally get pretty close with serverless.
However an alternate perspective is the microservices were not micro enough to make it worth the overhead + cost. My opinion is the reason this none of this feels great is because a container is not small enough of a base unit to enable you to completely forget about infrastructure.
That's why I'm betting the next paradigm that gains traction is fully serverless architectures. The overall direction things have been going for decades is to make hardware more invisible and I think we finally get pretty close with serverless.