Both my current employer and last have fallen into this trap. Trying to do microservices with a small team and moderate to low complexity. Both built distribute

Both my current employer and last have fallen into this trap. Trying to do microservices with a small team and moderate to low complexity. Both built distributed monoliths with a shared core and were spending lots of money keeping it from falling over. They incur all the costs of microservices with none of the benefits. Microservices are a siren song for many small/medium sized companies. What they need is clean separation between subdomains (composing domain level API functionality together in the user level APIs to implement business logic) and clean separation between domain and infrastructure code. There are a lot less complex ways to achieve this without microservices.