> I think what we're seeing here is Conway's law in action. Most places I've worked don't define their bounded contexts based on separation of concerns, but rat

> I think what we're seeing here is Conway's law in action. Most places I've worked don't define their bounded contexts based on separation of concerns, but rather on separation of reporting. You're not wrong. I mean, one of the goals of microservices is to peel off responsibilities to a service that can be owned and managed by a small team. However, what I've been seeing in these anti-microservices rant is developers struggling to acknowledge the need to reason with loosely coupled interfaces, reason about partial system failure modes that were always there in monoliths but we're either ignored or turned into critical system failures, and the microservices tax.