Interestingly, I think that almost all of the downsides listed in the article and in the comments go away if you use a good framework for creating microservices

Interestingly, I think that almost all of the downsides listed in the article and in the comments go away if you use a good framework for creating microservices (example for this: [0]): No internal glue code, no overhead by writing network interfaces, no slow HTTP calls (faster gRPC instead), no manual handling of asynchronous tasks. [0]: https://github.com/jina-ai/jina https://github.com/jina-ai/jina