Microservices, Here and Beyond
Chandra Rajasekharaiah · Apress eBooks · 2020
The first rule of soothsaying is to be abstract, generic, and futuristic. Our immediate predictions are invariably wrong: the year 2020 exemplifies the fallibility of our short-term plans. Also, to understand the future, we need to know how we got here and which human factors got us here. Fiction writers of the nineteenth century had predicted that we would build ways to share information globally. By the beginning of the twentieth century, they foresaw machines that would be small and commonplace by the end of the century. Most of these predictions—the true ones—were based on extrapolating the prevailing trends in scientific research and inventions, and also based on which ones have historically succeeded. The common underlying themes that lead to improvements remain the same: creativity, necessity, or laziness.