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> Microservices can make release coordination significantly harder i.e. when a feature release requires multiple deployments from separate teams, I definitely wouldn't list this in the pros column, it's very much an "it depends". Other tangential factors, e.g. monorepo vs multi-repo, can be more significant.

If you're operating a monolith, every release requires coordination from every team, no?

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I was referring to the act of deployment itself. A single deployment of a monolith, without needing to ensure a dependent service whose pipeline is owned by another team is "deployed first", can be a lot easier to organise.

As I say it can depend a lot on other factors like repo organisation, pipeline maturity.

I struggle to see how release coordination can be something microservices inherently improve upon, do you have an example comparison perhaps?

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