I doubt you can judge the blast radius. Say your little service just changed how it parsed backticks. Now that innocuous change may affect none of the immediat

I doubt you can judge the blast radius. Say your little service just changed how it parsed backticks. Now that innocuous change may affect none of the immediately connected microservices but another services three hops away relied on the old behavior of your parser through some complex business rules driven logic. Now go test and later troubleshoot that vs standing up a single monolithic jar on your laptop and seeing the exception stack trace tell you exactly what you broke.