[disintegore]

I've noticed that a lot of industry practices demonstrate their value in unexpected ways. Code tests, for instance, train you to think of every piece of code you write as having at minimum two integrations, and that makes developers who write unit tests better at separating concerns. Even if they were to stop writing tests altogether, they would still go on to write better code.

Microservices are a bit like that. They make it extremely difficult to insert cross cutting concerns into a code base. Conditioning yourself to think of how to work within these boundaries means you are going to write monolithic applications that are far easier to understand and maintain.