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The inherent greater complexity of designing extensible and cohesive systems turns away a large subset right away and it never gets to a comparative matrix to inform the decision making process. It's been reduced to "monoliths bad, microservices good" level of thinking.

I honestly think that the rise of microservices as "the technical cure for cancer and everything else" is a very interesting surfacing of the various systemic disfunctions of our beloved software industry. The disfunctions have been present from day 1 but the environment has somewhat radically changed.



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