All of the upsides for microservices the author enumerates are really luxuries that may or may not be afforded a harried team trying to beat their next deadline, which they&#x27;re having trouble doing because they&#x27;re slowed down due to the use of microservices.  This isn&#x27;t hypothetical; I&#x27;ve been on that team before.<p>I&#x27;m not saying microservices are bad, or good. There are tradeoffs, and in the situations I&#x27;ve been in, the negatives outweighed the positives, largely because the architecture was forced on us without providing the resources - mainly time - to do it right.