[SmirkingRevenge]

I'm not sure what the author does or does not understand, but many of the people going full-steam down the microservice road don't know those things either, and so end up often creating at least as big of a mess as they would with a monolith, despite lots of zeal and hype.

Coordinating a complex architecture IS hard. Microservices are often used as a way to wish away all that hard coordinating because... decoupling or something... and stuff.

Meanwhile what actually gets built is a tangled mess of tightly coupled (but separate) libraries as "services", with many-to-one relations between those services and developers, unnecessarily complex deployments, and... a big, fat, crappy HTTP layer slathered on top, just to add insult to injury. The next step is usually to pour on generous helpings of graphql.