[Closi]

Totally agree.

I guess I just don't see the value in having a monolith made up of microservices - you might as well just build a monolith if you are going down that route.

And if your application fits the microservices pattern better, then you might as well go down the microservices pattern properly and not give them a big central DB.

[adgjlsfhk1]

The one advantage of microservice on a single database model is that it lets you test the independent components much more easily while avoiding the complexity of database sharding.