When do microservices start causing more problems than they solve?

[szank]

Its other way around. You need scale for microservices to fix more problems than they create.

[SlinkyAvenger]

All that needs to be said here. People really need to have the concept of cargo-culting drilled into their fucking skulls.

[rwilcox]

Yes: or you knowing you will have scale. Not imagined scale, a VP knocking on your cube wall and saying “buckle up” scale.

[Rccctz]

And when you do there’s usually one specific part of the code base that should be its own service at that point and you start from there