Great observation, 100% on point. "Microservices are inherently slow. The very concept of a microservice is to break up a boundary by a network call. This means

Great observation, 100% on point. "Microservices are inherently slow. The very concept of a microservice is to break up a boundary by a network call. This means you are taking what was a function call (a couple cpu cycles) and turning it into a network call. There isn’t much you could do that is worse in terms of performance. Network calls are really slow compared to the CPU. But these big companies still choose to use microservices. There really isn’t an architecture slower than microservices that I know of. Microservices’ biggest con is performance, but greatest pro is time-to-market. By building teams around smaller projects and code bases, a company is able to iterate and innovate at a much faster pace. This just goes to show that very large companies also care about time-to-market, not just startups."