[ghomem]

I love Martin Fowler's one pager called Snowflake server - it aged very well and I still use it as a reference in the cloud era. And this text is also good advice IMO.

What I feel that is missing on what he calls the "Microservices Premium" is a clear statement that this premium is paid in "ops" hours. That changes the game because of the "ops" resource scarcity.

In fact, the microservices dilemma is an optimization problem related to the ops/dev ratio that is being wrongly treated as a conceptual problem.

This is the simplest analysis I could come up with:

https://logical.li/blog/ops-dev-ratio/