Agree completely, but that wasn't the point I was replying to, which was about totally understanding your system. Don't worry. I've suffered (and still do) as

Agree completely, but that wasn't the point I was replying to, which was about totally understanding your system. Don't worry. I've suffered (and still do) as much as anyone working with microservices, trying to reconcile and decipher logs. But total knowledge is rarely possible in a large system. At least microservices acknowledges this. If anything, they can help by following Conway's Law.