There is a good chance that you, dear reader, are not a software architect, so the term microservices, heck, even Dash may not mean much to you. Keep reading and I will explain these terms and why they matter.
Concept One, Service-Oriented Architecture.
In software, applications have a tendency to morph over time into monstrosities that look nothing like the initial vision, and one of many available methods to tame said monstrosities is Service-Oriented Architecture. This simply means that the application is divided into logically self-contained sections. Microservices, if you will.
Concept Two, Dash.
Unless you've been living under a rock (and a surprising amount of people do) you've probably heard about these new-fangled cryptocurrencies lately -- you know, like Bitcoin. Dash is one of these cryptocurrencies but younger and faster. It provides great solutions to major flaws such as pseudo-privacy, slow confirmation speeds, and the can-my-mom-use-this test.
Where the heck is this going? Let's combine the concepts.
Dash is essentially an economic microservice providing currency -- one of the many services that governments typically provide. You see, the government is analogous to a monstrous application, a tangled mess of laws and policies that try to control everything, but does so in a way that is increasingly ineffective.
It is absurd [...] to believe that the concentration of power in one or a few individuals at the top of a hierarchical representative democracy will be able to make optimal decisions on a vast array of connected and complex issues that will certainly have sweeping and unintended ramifications on other parts of human civilization.
-- Jason Koebler
With the microservices concept, we break off a piece of autonomous functionality and subject it to innovation and competition while minimizing disruption to other services. We achieve technological heterogeneity, which is why Dash is arguably a technically and economically superior currency to the Dollar (e.g. flexibility and scarcity), and how it has been able to build upon Bitcoin's initial successes in a short amount of time. Dash is not only rocketing to the top of the cryptocurrency pile due to its privacy features and speed but is also helping redefine the way we think about governance and society.
Brace yourself. The future is micro, and Dash is gonna' be huuuge!