[geezerjay]

> If microservices are never combined together, they are essentially monoliths under a cooler name.

This assertion completely misses the whole point of microservices: have highly specialized services that have a single and very limited responsibility, which clients can query independently and enable systems to be scaled (even horizontally) on their performance bottlenecks alone.

Describing a microservice architecture as a bunch of monoliths is simply missing the whole point.