It's insane to me that for a few years so many organizations were somehow convinced that MONSTROSITIES like trying to do distributed transactions using things

It's insane to me that for a few years so many organizations were somehow convinced that MONSTROSITIES like trying to do distributed transactions using things like 2 phase commit just to make the almighty microservices god happy was an acceptable way of doing things. The first law of Microservice architecture should have been- do the microservice boundaries you have defined result in the need for cross service transactions? If so, slam on those breaks hard.