"Why does technical overhead take a backseat whenever a microservices vs monolith discussion comes up?" I don't think it does, but that's kind of off topic. "

"Why does technical overhead take a backseat whenever a microservices vs monolith discussion comes up?" I don't think it does, but that's kind of off topic. "In the real world, setting up and maintaining microservices has huge technical overhead, I'd estimate double that of the equivalent monolithic architecture." I agree.