Software development is about managing complexity. Think about it like this. If the number of lines of code in a piece of software is N, then the amount of effo

Software development is about managing complexity. Think about it like this. If the number of lines of code in a piece of software is N, then the amount of effort required for managing that software is N^2 (or N^1.5, or whatever). Some people believe that by properly organizing software development, you can minimize or completely get rid of the exponential growth of the complexity. The idea is that the amount of effort for managing software containing N lines of code should be N. Microservices tries to organize software so that complexity is minimized. In my experience, they completely fail to do so. Rather they actually increase the complexity by putting related pieces of systems far apart from each other. I think it is better to "embrace the complexity" and to concede that software development is difficult. Better developer tools and stronger developers are better methods for dealing with complexity than in vain trying to minimize complexity.