This doesn't work in the long-run. I'm an independent consultant and when I was just starting out I had the same thoughts. And it was great to be in full cont

This doesn't work in the long-run. I'm an independent consultant and when I was just starting out I had the same thoughts. And it was great to be in full control and always use the latest shiny new things. However I eventually got shiny new fatigue. In the long-run, the real thing I found motivating was completing valuable work for clients in the most efficient way possible. And perhaps that's the true reason OP has found coding boring in the past. Not because of anything he thinks are the reasons, but because he's worked at too many places with inefficient management and poorly-defined projects. If so, new-shiny is only a bandaid on the root problem, and the real solution is to ensure projects are well defined, understood to be useful, and well-managed before a programmer ever even sees it. New-shiny may make it even worse in the long run. AND...microservices??? I can't imagine a scenario where the benefits outweigh the cons for as small a team as he's got. Of course they're all the rage and people get into microservices for all the wrong new-shiny reasons, but escaping boredom has to be the worst one I've ever heard.