> higher overall resiliency. yes. because making a page render dependent on the availability of 10s of independent network services is going to greatly improve

> higher overall resiliency. yes. because making a page render dependent on the availability of 10s of independent network services is going to greatly improve your resiliency. I guess it's a matter of perspective. If you are willing to count a partially working experience as still working, then yes, you might be able to say you're more resilient because only, say the service to add a product to the basket is down - you can still look at products, so technically, you're still up. That's not how availability is measured normally though. In my (and definitely in my users) book, a site where some stuff is broken is broken. Period. And if that's the environment you're working in, you're really not improving matters by adding unnecessary network layers between components of your application.