[rumanator]

Microservices are by definition stand-alone, independent, and self-contained. That's the whole point of microservices, and one of the reasons why people tolerate the pain that goes with a distributed system.

If your application does not meet any of those requirements then call it something else, as it clearly isn't a microservice.

[hamiltont]

> and crappy tooling means they are instead stuck with an mangled over-engineered monolith

Not sure you read my post. I called it a "mangled over-engineered monolith"