I wonder if this incentive is stronger at smaller startups. If I routinely work in small startups which are likely to fail, then spending time in aspects of th

I wonder if this incentive is stronger at smaller startups. If I routinely work in small startups which are likely to fail, then spending time in aspects of the stack which are likely to be needed at future startups is a smart use of my time. Micro-services have fairly extreme upfront deployment/automation overhead relative to monoliths. This setup effort is common across many firms adopting microservices.