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I've always wondered what makes Martin Fowler such an authoritative voice in software?

Fowler has been working for many years at a consulting company (ThoughtWorks), and thus has had insights into many, many software development projects.

Then he has started writing blogs, books, giving talks etc, which has increased his reputation.

I don't agree with everything he writes, probably because we have very different perspectives, but nearly everything technical he writes seems to be very solid, and I've never seen any bullshit from him.

I respect that, lots of other developers do that too.

He's definitely no bullshit but he's not very good at contextualizing the stuff he writes. Instead of writing "we did X in Y situation and it worked out great, but it probably wouldn't work well in Z situation" he just says "X is awesome, everybody should be doing it".

And that's the story of how I came to work on a team that maintained ~16 unnecessary microservices.

A microphone and a blog. Throw in a book for good measure.

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