> The question "Do we really need multiple databases" is one of the main culprits that spawn distributed monoliths. It's true the lack of bounded contexts is

> The question "Do we really need multiple databases" is one of the main culprits that spawn distributed monoliths. It's true the lack of bounded contexts is a big problem. But I also see a lot of orchestration services with multiple dependencies on other services, some of which are themselves orchestration services. This quickly cascades into dependency hell only you don't get the benefit of a compiler to alert you to the problems.