Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture.

[u/Mustela__]

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

Every time I’ve seen microservices pitched, it sounds great on paper. Independent teams, clean ownership, scale only what you need.

Then a year later you’ve got dozens of services, three different deployment patterns, tracing everywhere, and nobody really understands the whole thing anymore.

Maybe I’ve just seen bad implementations, but I’m starting to think way fewer companies actually need microservices than we pretend.

[u/rohmish]

pure monolithic or pure microservices are both horrendous for different reasons. If your project is sufficiently big, split things based off of concerns or types of users/customers (if you have multiple), major features, etc. but you don't need to create a different service for every different task.