I commented on this in another thread here. What I read it as is don’t over-index on creating separate layers/services if they are already highly dependent on

I commented on this in another thread here. What I read it as is don’t over-index on creating separate layers/services if they are already highly dependent on each other. It just adds additional complexity tracing dependencies over the networking stack, databases/datastores, etc that the services are now split across. In other words: a monolithic design is acceptable if the services are highly intertwined and dependent.