A good maintainable software solution is always build out of relatively small and simple components with very important: clear inputs and outputs without too mu

A good maintainable software solution is always build out of relatively small and simple components with very important: clear inputs and outputs without too much sideeffect behavior. It says nothing about if its a monolith or microservice. I have seen a lot of microservice architectures so complex with 100s of layers and configurations that nobody in the company understood how it really worked. I have also seen the very same thing in large monoliths. Too big. Too complex. The discussion should be about the software component architecture. Not about ifs a monolith or microservice.