[tomas789]

I will offer myself as a counterexample. I worked at many companies, as exployee or contractor and held various positions. Dev, tech lead, manager.

I have yet to see a good application of microservices. I’m not saying there are none but the companies that can truéy benefit from that are few and fare apart.

From my experience smaller companies usually benefit a lot from simple monolythical architecture. Large companies tend to split problem into multiple products. But each product is still a kinda monolyth.

I have no experience with huge SaaS companies like Netflix. I can easily see why there the situation is quite different.

My horror story from recent days is that I had a 100-ish LOC patch. I had to push an update to 8 repos. That means 8 merge requests, 8 code reviews, deploy changes in correct order such that it does not break anything. The whole thing took 3 days. Coding was done in two hours.