Scott's historical reframing: microservices descended from service-oriented architecture once IBM, Microsoft and Oracle had buried SOA in enterprise tooling like BizTalk. 'Micro' meant a smaller enterprise-tool footprint, not the size of a service. Web developers then heard 'microservices' and reinvented CORBA/SOAP-era web services over HTTP — the same failure mode. The right word today is 'autonomous components'; they can happily share one database.