Microservices, like nosql databases, and complex deployment systems (docker) are very important solutions to problems a very small percentage of the development community has.
It just so happens that the portion of the community is the one most looked up to by the rest of the community so a sort of cargo cult mentality forms around them.
A differentiator in your productivity as a non-huge-company could well be in not using these tools. There are exceptions, of course, where the problem does call for huge-company solutions, but they're rarer than most people expect.
It just so happens that the portion of the community is the one most looked up to by the rest of the community so a sort of cargo cult mentality forms around them.
A differentiator in your productivity as a non-huge-company could well be in not using these tools. There are exceptions, of course, where the problem does call for huge-company solutions, but they're rarer than most people expect.