>The appeal of microservices (much like functional programming) comes from imposing restrictions that make dangerous things harder. It makes everything harder

>The appeal of microservices (much like functional programming) comes from imposing restrictions that make dangerous things harder. It makes everything harder for no particularly good reason. Dangerous or otherwise. Worse, if you do happen to create a distributed ball of mud you've almost certainly created a far bigger maintenance nightmare for yourself than if you created a "monolithic" ball of mud.