[noop_joe]

Totally, I think there's a lot of retroactive justification for what's familiar whether it be microservice or monolith. They both have advantages and disadvantages -- we're at a point where deploying and running either is available on most clouds.

That said, I think interesting possibilities exist where the two approaches are blended. I work for a cloud [1] that supports a concept of "services" grouped within an app each of those services is a web server that can be configured to sleep [2] under specific conditions -- effectively serverless but without the loss of shared memory and all the efficiencies of running a more traditional web server.

The grouping of services also provides a way to spin off parts of an application while keeping it within the same deployment process.

1. https://noop.dev

2. https://noop.dev/docs/sleepy-services/