> From my years of experience with the industry, ideas like microservices were used way before zero interest rates, and will continue to be used, because they s

> From my years of experience with the industry, ideas like microservices were used way before zero interest rates, and will continue to be used, because they solve actual real problems many people have. It is one of the many ways for a VC funded company to quickly run out of money. Given that companies such as Uber and Monzo proudly report that they have thousands upon thousands of micro-services with other startups copying that due to the micro-services hype, I can only see that as a way to introduce more problems such as more operational costs and significant complexity to engineers. Microservices was indeed a ZIRP idea taken to the extreme in many startups believing they could scale like Google, except that they could not afford to and most of them either bankrupted themselves or are still losing hundreds of thousands a month on this idea and are cutting down on the micro-services fad to save money.