> My, perhaps overly cynical view, is that Message Queue architecture and blogging was all about "Resume Driven Development" - where almost everybody doing it was unlikely to ever need to scale past what a simple monolith could support running on a single laptop. All the same people who were building nightmare micro service disasters requiring tens of thousand of dollars a month of AWS services.

Yes, that is cynical. People have been building architectures off MQ for a much longer time than microservices have been around. Lots of corporates have used JMS for a long time now.