There is this amazing technology called “libraries”, “modules”, and “frameworks” that allows thousands of developers to work on the same monolith. It has been a

There is this amazing technology called “libraries”, “modules”, and “frameworks” that allows thousands of developers to work on the same monolith. It has been around for quite a while. No micro-services required. There is even this amazing technology called “automatic testing” that can test each library/framework independently before delivering to clients. I happens to use both of those amazing technologies at work every day and it works really well. I also happen to be sharing an office with a college who is fighting a 20 years old micro-services application. The worst piece of garbage I have ever seen in my 25+ years career. Every little functionality is running in its own process. There are hundreds of them. The complexity and difficulty of the system is truly mind blowing. If you think monoliths are hard, just wait until you split the same functionality into a distributed collection of micro-services. Welcome to the world of distributed systems. The additional failure scenarios just sky rocketed. Have a nice day!