> No battle plan survives contact with the enemy, and microservices are making decisions early on that are difficult to change later. Because you've picked one

> No battle plan survives contact with the enemy, and microservices are making decisions early on that are difficult to change later. Because you've picked one decomposition and then erected fences around the parts Why would merging two or more microservices be any more difficult than turning a monolith into several microservices? I'm not implying one would be harder than the other. I'm really curious to understand the downsides of going each route.