You are not missing anything. This is a reheated anti-pattern that was (poorly) conceived in the 90's, and managed to crawl back. Was a great way to break a mon

You are not missing anything. This is a reheated anti-pattern that was (poorly) conceived in the 90's, and managed to crawl back. Was a great way to break a monolithic app back then, and it's still a great way to break a modular, scalable, cloud based web app now.