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* Constantly being asked for estimates while requirements are not clear.

* Having 6 "highest priority" projects at the same time.

* Other functions I depend on not doing their job on time but my timeline doesn't change

* A VP falling in love with a technology he read about in a Gartner report

Oh gosh, I have all of this going on right now. My CTO read about microservices and now everything has to be in a microservice.

Nothing wrong with that, but for a small development team there is a lot to make that work (infrastructure as code is another requirement), especially when the project timeline is tight energy when building as a monolith.

You can sell to him that microservices are nice, but nano services? even better! (your classes are already nano services calling each other ;)

Do your microservices talk to the same database?

I would say there is a lot wrong with microservices for small teams

with the only exception being if the team is growing rapidly

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