The microservices-honeymoon period is over. Uber are refactoring thousands of microservices into a more manageable solution, according to Kelsey Hightower monoliths are the future, and even Sam Newman says that microservices should never be the default choice, but rather a last resort.

If your answer is always “microservices,” you’re probably asking the wrong question. Just as in clothes, in the IT world technologies come in and out of fashion. This is the story, largely, of microservices.