[dexterbt1]

This. I really like the analogy that of running a city. There are just so many concerns in and around building and running microservice architectured systems: security, logging/analytics, failure modes/recovery/detection/self-healing, message protocol versioning, data persistence, capacity scaling and many more. Much of these are easy to defer/overlook early in dev't stage but will later become very hard, if not impossible to incorporate in.

Btw, we thank you and your team as we are Kong users as well. :)