[bhburke]

I think there are plenty of examples of monolithic architectures that also have huge technical overhead, builds breaking for unrelated changes, huge amounts of regression testing, not to mention the build times...

Microservices can be a great pattern to deliver quickly _and_ maintain high availability/low technical overhead, that's their point. I think the problem arises when developers try to over-optimize or over-engineer a system, or they want to get promoted so they write a new service, ending up with huge entangled webs like in the sketch.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, every time

[owenmarshall]

> I think there are plenty of examples of monolithic architectures that also have huge technical overhead, builds breaking for unrelated changes, huge amounts of regression testing, not to mention the build times...

Yes – I was talking about those same monolithic architectures in that comment ;-)