A bit over a decade ago, I was sold on the concept of microservices. After implementing, maintaining, and integrating many microservices; I have realized how in

A bit over a decade ago, I was sold on the concept of microservices. After implementing, maintaining, and integrating many microservices; I have realized how incredibly exhausting it is. Sure microservices have their place, but understanding the often higher costs associated with microservices should be considered when developing a new service. Focus on the costs that are less tangible: siloed knowledge, integration costs, devops costs, coordinating releases, cross-team communication, testing, contract versioning, shared tooling. I could go on, but that's just a sample of some of the less obvious costs. I feel that the collective opinion of microservices has shifted towards being trepidatious of microservices as many have experienced the pains associated with microservcies.