My thought is that this comparison between a monolithic code base vs a microservices code base is a bit subjective. If you're starting out chances are your code

My thought is that this comparison between a monolithic code base vs a microservices code base is a bit subjective. If you're starting out chances are your code base hasn't even gotten to the level of being monolithic. So those thinking about how they're going to architect their platform may begin to think that a microservice setup could help for future changes to their code. It really depends on each team, their background, and how they want to think about their platform in the future. To list out the pros and cons of both to draw a conclusion that one is better than the other is certainly setting a bias that I believe to be a bit unfair. Just look at Netflix and their container services. It's a platform adopted by a ton of companies including Nike. So for some a microservices approach makes a lot of sense.