Thoughts by: Sven Bernhardt, Richard Attemeyer, Torsten Winterberg, Stefan Kühnlein, Stefan Scheidt

Up to now (see our article on Microservices from a SOA perspective) we considered Microservices as an architectural pattern: We discussed the statical structure of your system and the consequences. It seems nowadays that you design explicitely for a microservices architecture. We believe that this is the wrong way to approach the problem.
Don’t build the system with the microservices pattern in mind, but ask more important questions about how you want to develop, what are the principles to follow when building a new system… and a microservices architecture emerges naturally.