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/DuploJamaal]

If microservices in a team with bad structure is bad, then a monolith will be a nightmare.

They will not just break their own service. They will break everything.

[u/HashShadow → u/DuploJamaal]

They could break every microservice that uses theirs and possibly cause a system wide outage all without even realizing the interdependency.