I was complaining recently to a manager at another company about a half-assed "microservice breakout" project in a previous job where some teams moved from one

I was complaining recently to a manager at another company about a half-assed "microservice breakout" project in a previous job where some teams moved from one big service + one big DB to many big services + single DB and introduced fun new DB connection + perf issues... and was dismayed to learn that this other manager didn't even think "a bunch of services all talking to the same giant DB" seemed like best practices.