Microservices are designed differently than monoliths. The architecture enables you to easily do something. Cognitive load isn't what matters, it's the engineer

Microservices are designed differently than monoliths. The architecture enables you to easily do something. Cognitive load isn't what matters, it's the engineering. You can spin microservices up and down to meet demand. You can put them in containers to build an anti-fragile system. You can load balance them. That's much more difficult and more expensive to do with monoliths. The author is thinking of the distinction like an ivory-tower CS professor who thinks he's talking about abstractions, when you're actually talking about design and engineering.