The "shared database microservices" antipattern is particularly pernicious. I've seen this a couple of times at enterprises where a mandate comes down from up

The "shared database microservices" antipattern is particularly pernicious. I've seen this a couple of times at enterprises where a mandate comes down from up high to microservice all the things, so they just split the frontend side of monolith into a couple of notionally separate apps but keep the old backend for all state. Ta-dah, microservices!