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Their wordsNone of these are actually true - although, of course, human ingenuity, knowing no bounds, is sure to provide critics with enough data points on any of these dimensions to provide for some healthy argument.
Their wordsMicro-services require scalable, resilient scaffolding (i.e., the ability to be automatically run on multiple machines, or having multiple instances on each machine to take advantage of multiple CPU cores), and that is not something you usually get out of a conventional SOA framework (or ESB) - although some are beginning to tackle that problem, even as they are bound by their own conventions.
Their wordsDocker will be a part of that story in due time (it's already the gold standard for packaging and re-using "conventional" services, but it's still acquiring the degree of fine-grained control and self-healing that's required).
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