[TeMPOraL]

> Part of the promise of microservice is that they're small modular independent components that you can connect and combine into higher-level services.

Sounds to me that the marketing copy for microservices is missing a crucial observation: the reason independent components aren't hard to work with in regular software is partly because everything runs single-threaded, or if you end up multithreading, the response is predictable and near real-time, the environment is reliable and under your control. These conditions essentially mask transactional and integrity issues, which only become apparent as you scale to multiple machines connected over a network.