Well when you hire 40 engineers and 4-5 dev managers, each manager wants an application they can call their own, so they divvy up the potential product into wha

Well when you hire 40 engineers and 4-5 dev managers, each manager wants an application they can call their own, so they divvy up the potential product into what they feel are reasonable bits. Hence: micro services. It’s the same reason React was created: to more easily Conways-Law (used as a verb) the codebase