Over the recent year the architectural paradigm of Microservices has become increasingly popular. There have been articles and conference tracks promoting it and companies like Netflix have applied the pattern to great effect.

I am in favour of the approach and believe it to have multiple beneficial qualities.

However, in this presentation I will share my experiences why we decided not to use fully-fledged Microservices in a recent project and instead stick to a more reserved SOA inside a monolithic application solution.