[bpicolo]

Microservices solve a number of engineers scale problem, not a traffic scale problem. Tech scale is drastically more simple in a single application, because you don’t introduce an unreliable network and related complexity into all of your problems

[kumaraman]

Interesting, in my experience we've never had major issues with our service mesh or internal networking. It definitely introduces a lot more complexities. I suppose we've always had a dedicated devops team so I'm probably unaware of a lot of these issues.

I'd be interested in some resources around this topic if you know of any.

[bpicolo]

I'll be honest - pretty hard to find objective literature on it, because most of the literature is just trying to tell you microservices will solve all of your problems. I think ultimately the best link between the two is Amazon's move to microservices and their focus on "2 pizza teams".

https://www.slideshare.net/TriNimbus/chris-munns-devops-amaz...