> you aren’t acknowledging the fundamental tradeoffs. Well, the post that I was responding to stated the tradeoffs (complexity). And I was responding by sayin

> you aren’t acknowledging the fundamental tradeoffs. Well, the post that I was responding to stated the tradeoffs (complexity). And I was responding by saying that 'complexity' is a bit nebulous - and, in my experience, is reduced in some areas (very easy to reason about independent microservices without having to consider dependencies). > Debugging systemic issues across distributed systems is automatically one or more orders of magnitude more difficult. Sure, I guess. I haven't really run into issues that good correlation ids + instrumentation can't help with. Also, I find it really easy to target metrics and 'smoke alerts' to small services. Ideally, in a distributed system, you aren't worrying too much about distributed debugging so much as a single service failure. > I hate these discussions on HN because there’s so much generalization and opinionated arrogance Whoof. Let's take a step back here. I shared my experience and opinion, I don't think I'm being arrogant by doing so. I stated that microservice-first is not always the way to go, but that it can work - and I pointed to an area in the article that I thought really highlighted this point (the need to build features rapidly).