[r00tanon]

As with all architectural patterns there are tradeoffs. Microservices for one thing are not functions. Granularity is an important concern.

A DDD approach up front will help with granularity.

The other leg is serverless support. Without that you are stuck with maintaining infrastructure in tandem with all the other considerations, which takes a lot a specialists - lots of engineers.

Definitely a game of scale and not for small organizations.

However, if scale is the key ingredient for success and the value proposition is based on scale, then this kind of architecture is worth looking at.

That said, all shops are not Netflix or AWS...