Microservices have lately seemed to me to be a buzzword for the ears of executives and stakeholders. To someone who isn't technical enough, it seems really "cool" from the outside, but on the inside, it's more than often a shitshow with teams and managers messing around to get these services working with each other properly while wasting a lot of time.

If you ask me, if the time and focus is invested properly, it would be much more efficient to run a monolith instead. That's what some small number of great teams end up doing.