[Blokje5]

The point of microservices is only partly to support individual teams owning a service. AFAIK the main points are isolating failures, independent deployments and horizontal scaling of individual components.

I do agree that without a good API design it can become a mess quickly and most companies go for microservices without a clear understanding of what goals they are trying to achieve with microservices. For those companies, sticking with a monolith would've probably worked better.

I've even heard cases where companies went back to a monolith and I think that is actually a smart decision in some cases.

But I definitely don't think it is a waste of CPUs power.