A retrospective on microservices, what we set out to do at Netflix, how it worked out, and how things have subsequently permeated across the industry, along with some of the [mis]appropriations etc. that have since happened. The first talks I gave at QCon SF in 2011 and QCon London in 2012 were on the Netflix cloud architecture. We subsequently agreed to call it microservices and started open sourcing components of the architecture, and the term really took off in 2013 along with the launch of Docker and containers. Looking back at the original ideas and motivations, most of the core concepts were adopted, but some key ideas went missing along the way. This has led to some of the complaints we hear today about things that are hard to do with microservices in practice, that we anticipated and solved for at the time.