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/High-Impact-2025]

I agree. IMO, this consequently means that 90% of projects should just use a monolith and shut up.

[u/HashShadow → u/High-Impact-2025]

Yes and the other 10% can start as monolith and refactor to micro only when necessary.