>It's also worth noting that microservices are more secure and reliable as well, since there's no vulnerable component that has access to all of the secrets nor

>It's also worth noting that microservices are more secure and reliable as well, since there's no vulnerable component that has access to all of the secrets nor a bunch of components that ought to be non-critical but actually are critical because anything can bring down the entire application for all other components (e.g., someone makes a sync call in some leaf component that breaks the event loop for the whole application, with failures cascading across your replicas This is not inherently true. Whether it's true or not is down to your implementation. You can most certainly have reliability and security problems while doing microservices.