> One thing you sure don't get is performance. You can optimise per use case. In the monolith everything has to work for every use case. In a service you might

> One thing you sure don't get is performance. You can optimise per use case. In the monolith everything has to work for every use case. In a service you might not care to write, you might not care if your writes are super async. This means you can start to take liberties with the back-end (e.g. denormalising where necessary) and you have room to breathe.