And it's not as if Martin Fowler came up with the idea as an original either, QnX, Erlang and many other systems used those basic ideas much earlier (sometimes decades earlier). But this is the web, where the old is new again.
It’s safe to say that Fowler rarely claims to originate things. He’s more of a taxonomist.
Re:Give Me Back My Monolith
by icebraining on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @07:48PM
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He says so himself:
> We do not claim that the microservice style is novel or innovative, its roots go back at least to the design principles of Unix.
The generation of programmers that Martin Fowler is from, are exactly the people from whom I got my ideas around how organization politics effect software and vice versa. There was plenty of cynicism around organization politics back then.