[xorcist]

> Its extremely difficult to change a monolith to microservices

I beg to differ. It's completely straightforward, for the most part. You split them out, one by one. That's a big part of the reason for its popularity.

If it's really that difficult, maybe it's not a great fit for the problem at hand.

[asdfman123]

No, the problem is it can be extremely easy to break services into microservices, especially using the slick tools I've seen in Azure (I'm sure other providers have them as well). They just work, and they're cheap!

But then you realize debugging and refactoring is way harder, and you aren't getting any real benefits from splitting things apart like that.

[eweise]

OK agree to disagree then. I spent a year on a team trying to break a monolith into microservices generally we failed. We ended up with microfrankenservices that had no clear seams. Problem is generally the state gets mixed up throughout the app. Unrelated entities participating in the same transaction for example. References to domain objects everywhere in the monolith.