Comment by worldsayshi

I don't buy the idea that people mainly reach for microservices for scalability or "pleasure" reasons though.

I personally reach for it to outsource some problems by using off the shelf solutions. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. And if everyone else is doing it in a certain way I want to do it in the same way to try to stand on the shoulders of giants and not reinvent everything.

But that's probably the wrong approach then...