Maybe we are doing microservices all wrong? This was the main thesis of “Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications” (PDF), a paper from a bunch of Googlers (led by Google software engineer Michael Whittaker) that was presented in June at HOTOS ’23: Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems. The problem, as Whittaker et al pointed out, was that microservices largely have not been set up correctly, architecturally speaking. They conflate logical boundaries (how cod...