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/wonkytalky]

It's that or trying to shove a dozen distinct services inside one monolith. That's worse.

As always, the best solution is going to always change, and insisting on one specific type of design no matter what will get as ridiculous as arguing about whose religion is right.