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Would be really interesting if microservices were limited to a manageable amount of code. I wonder if technical leadership has ever guided their org devs that services shouldn't be more than ___ lines of code (excluding tests). Obviously, more services would mean more latency, but I'm pretty sure this one I'm working on now that is over 11k LOC (ignoring comments) could be replicated with a few bash commands.

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That sounds even worse honestly.

One of the criticisms of microservices is that factoring a system correctly is already a hard problem, and introducing a network call between them makes it even harder.

Enforcing service LoC limits is equivalent to forcing further factoring of a system, which might not be necessary, especially not into a microservice arch.

Sometimes code is tightly coupled because it needs to be tightly coupled.

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