Given that I have been part of a team that independently invented micro-services, and that since knowing that, I’ve met several other people who have done similarly, it can’t imagine that it’s all that hard. To me, it was just a natural evolution.

What do you consider as the most important things that people are do wrong?

Also, could you enumerate the time-wasters? Off hand, besides occasionally having to re-consolidate the architecture, I can’t think of many. It would be good to know how much the time-wasters cost in contrast to the alternatives.