Micro services are neither bad or good, they are simply misunderstood.

They are a solution to communication and organizational challenges, not a technical one.

As every other solution they have cons, some of which you have outlined.

Nah, I’ll agree with parent: they’re objectively bad. They turn what could be IPC into network calls, and because everything uses frameworks and ORMs, it’s all slow as hell.

“We can move faster” (but at the cost of our product being slower).