[alixedi]

The only 2 valid reasons I have come across for using microservices based system architecture:

1) There is a codepath in the application that has radically different load characteristics.

2) We want to give each team in the organisation ownership of (most of) their stack, release cadence, SRE etc.

(2) seems like an attempt at engineering but is often about management - empowering the teams yada yada.

There is a thread here about: "Technology opinion-sphere is a FAANG monopoly" aka "Dude, we got like 3 paying customers!". I'll leave that for another day.

[imtringued]

Actually 1) isn't a good argument. There is nothing wrong with having regular sized services. Most applications already do that. They separate databases from web servers.