The vast, vast, vast majority of organizations don't need micro services, don't need half of the products they bought and now have to integrate into their stack, and are simply looking to shave their yak to meet the bullet list of "best practices" for year 202X. Service oriented architectures and micro services solve a particular problem for companies that are operating on a massive scale and can invest (read waste money) on teams devoted to tooling. What most companies should do is build a monolith that makes money, but hire good software engineers that can write packages/modules whatever with high levels of cohesion and loose coupling, so that one day when you become the next Google, it will be less of a pain to break it into services. But in the end it really doesn't matter if it's painful anyway, because you'll have the money to hire an army of people to do it while the original engineers take their stock and head off to early retirement.