[scottious]

sure, but all of that is a cost which you don't have to pay with a monolith. Versioning APIs and having to constantly think about backwards compatibility with independently moving services is not trivial.

Sometimes the cost is worth it. Most of the time it's not

[TameAntelope]

Oh, you absolutely have to pay that cost with a monolith, it's just less clear and obvious because you can change all of the consumers when you make a change to an interface.