[adamdrake]

I run into the microservices obsession very often in the high-growth startups I advise, so often that I wrote Enough With The Microservices (https://adamdrake.com/enough-with-the-microservices.html).

I typically see people try to push microservices as a "best practice" for improving the delivery rate of software teams. They carve the codebase into separate services, but still leave all of the persistence in place so that all services are communicating with the same DB(s). The result is a tangled web of interdependent services, plus additional tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. that actually makes the teams even slower than they were before.

I'm glad to see us as a community getting more pragmatic about these topics, and realizing that _best practices_ are highly context dependent!