There's been a lot of (deserved) criticism towards microservice architecture and how it's usually hurtful to the companies. However, I believe SOA isn't bad ...

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The article highlights that microservices are not the problem in software engineering; instead, it is the lack of engineering competence and the lack of care in companies. Incompetence leads to complex systems and inefficient work. The article recommends taking ownership of services and emphasizes the importance of developer experience and governance in addressing these issues.

Microservices aren't the problem. Incompetent people are

Maybe the problem is making blanket statements instead of realizing that while in some cases incompetent people are the problem, in some cases microservices might be, in many cases being overly simplistic in our thinking is…