[worksonmine]

Sometimes there are reasons to separate projects. I wouldn't put a scraper or pdf generator with the main application.

There are benefits to keeping some things small and isolated. Teams that have problems with micro services are doing it wrong.

[IshKebab]

> I wouldn't put a scraper or pdf generator with the main application.

I would. It can be in the main executable just under a different subcommand.

> There are benefits to keeping some things small and isolated.

Nobody is saying otherwise. It's just that the downsides are almost always bigger.

> Teams that have problems with micro services are doing it wrong.

How so? Some of the disadvantages are inherent to the idea of microservices, e.g. the additional orchestration complexity.

[worksonmine]

> I would. It can be in the main executable just under a different subcommand.

Executing user code (pdf generator) could potentially be a security concern, isolating it has it benefits.

> the additional orchestration complexity.

This would be an example of doing it wrong. A healthy microservice fails gracefully and latency can be minimal.