> unlike monoliths, they are far less tolerant of hacking together big balls of mud and demand instead some degree of discipline to design a system and comply w

> unlike monoliths, they are far less tolerant of hacking together big balls of mud and demand instead some degree of discipline to design a system and comply with the system design. A demand that is often poorly met, leaving one with a distributed ball of mud that is more difficult to reason about and refactor.