I've found it to be much harder to manage and deploy multiple projects that it was to deploy a war. It's also been a huge PITA to test the newer architecture be

I've found it to be much harder to manage and deploy multiple projects that it was to deploy a war. It's also been a huge PITA to test the newer architecture because all these serverless artifacts need to be deployed together. What we have now is a distributed monolith, just like the article refers to.