[adrianpike]

This is very accurate - microservices can be great as a forcing function to revisit your architectural boundaries, but if all you do is add a network hop and multiple components to update when you tweak a data model, all you'll get is headcount sprawl and deadlock to the moon.

I'm a huge fan of migrating to microservices as a secondary outcome of revisiting your component boundaries, but just moving to separate repos & artifacts so we can all deploy independently is a recipe for pain.

[Sparkyte]

Network hop isn't needed if you're deploying your microservices correctly. So you can make pod groups inside of kubernetes and application that depends on another can call that lightweight container contained in that pod group. Pods inherently know the other is there in their group it has some or like network call without traversing hardware.

[jrs235]

and a recipe for "career" driven managers and directors to grow department head count, budget oversight, and self importance.