[jnash]

Nothing magically makes microservices good or bad. Nothing magically makes monoliths good or bad. It all depends on how good the developers are. However it is objectively a fact that microservides are inherently more complex than monoliths. You basically take a monolith and add encode/decoding, network latency delays, no global commits, potential timing issues, partly-failed system scenarios, new types of distributed error conditions etc. to the mix. So there is zero upside to using microservices IMHO.