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Microservices are often adopted for the wrong reasons—resume padding, cargo-culting Netflix, or sunk cost fallacy—rather than genuine technical need. The piece argues that microservices trade code complexity for operational complexity, breaking ACID transactions and forcing manual saga-based state machines that introduce data corruption risks. It challenges common justifications like slow monolith builds or independent scaling, arguing these are discipline and tooling problems, not architectural ones. A practical roadmap is offered: audit bounded contexts, adopt a modulith-first approach, apply a rule-of-three before extracting services, fix build pipelines, and measure infrastructure overhead to determine if simplification is needed.

The Microservices Tax: Why Your Distributed Architecture is Failing You

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