Thank you. But if my services have a large heap of shared libraries in common, it's by definition a monolith. With Guava, or without. I shouldn't call it "microservices architecture" in the first place.

What I always meant by "microservices" is whatever servers talking to each other by some kind of RPC, e.g. Protobuf in Google (HTTP+JSON works as well if you don't operate terabytes). Then it doesn't matter what Guava version, or even what programming language my services are written in, as long as they support RPC format (e.g. Protobuf).

So I conclude that original post author does microservices wrong. Or just don't understand what he's talking about. Sad to see it on InfoQ.