Micro-services are the current-year deity of the cargo-cult that is Silicon Valley.
Unlike the natives, however, who simply wasted some time building extraneous fake runways, in the Valley people are royally screwing up their own core architecture.
I'm old enough to find this more humorous than frustrating.
I think micro services only came into existence because SOA was such a disaster, everyone confused SOA architectures with web services. These ended up being n-tier apps with a web service RPC (or several) in the middle just to add some unnecessary serialization and network transfer bottlenecks.
So far I've seen micro services repeat this trend almost exactly.
