> Quite the self-fulfilling prophecy there.

Microservices require your organization to have an engineering culture. I would be afraid of introducing them at, say, Home Depot where (I've heard) your average programmer doesn't even write tests.

If you have engineering talent within a small multiplicative factor of Google (say 0.5), then you can pull off Microservices at your org.

Edit: I'm being downvoted, but I don't think it's a dangerous assumption or point to make that it takes a certain amount of discipline and experience to implement microservices correctly. When you have that technical capacity and the project calls for it, the benefit is tremendous.