[vitalus]

> Yet would anyone seriously consider altering a monolithic HR application to add pet insurance management? Never.

Sure they might? I can't see a category of business features that would naturally lend themselves to being microservices rather than extended features of a monolith unless there was some real technical challenge that was otherwise more easily solved by being in a microservice.

[nine_k]

The challenge can be non-technical. The tech can be trivial, the business know-how, key.