I have been fighting this in my current position, with some success with some teams and far less success with others (who are now fighting with the distributed

I have been fighting this in my current position, with some success with some teams and far less success with others (who are now fighting with the distributed monolith they have created). Ironically the ex-faanmg folks are all pro-monolith. I think most people fail to realize microservices are what you get from an iterative process. You pull out of the monolith the things you need to scale eventually. Microservices need plenty of basic infrastructure that you don't want to mantain unless you need to. Most companies don't have an adequate platform to support the pattern anyway.