I think it’s more that if you have a bad or unstable interface between services it’s way worse than if it’s an internal interface within a single service. Succ

I think it’s more that if you have a bad or unstable interface between services it’s way worse than if it’s an internal interface within a single service. Successful SOA requires extremely good judgement and foresight in order to get the tradeoffs right. Even the word microservices coupled with “code craftsman” consultants peddling just-so rules of thumb about how big services “should be” without any specific domain context has lead a generation of engineers down a path of hard lessons about understanding your use case before blindly reaching for a pattern.