> because you could've just had your small team of front end developers talk to your small team of back end developers to create exactly the optimized endpoints

> because you could've just had your small team of front end developers talk to your small team of back end developers to create exactly the optimized endpoints they needed to solve the problem What you are describing is called BFF I guess. And apparently it's already out of date so let's again split BFFs into smaller parts. https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html#BackendCommunication https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html#Backe... I am not against services, it's organizational motivated "micro" services I am very afraid of.