Introduction Recently, I came across a team that was breaking their perfectly healthy .NET application into nine smaller services because they heard the benefits of microservices at a tech conference. Six months later, they were paying for nine pipelines, two message brokers, and a tracing bill, and still shipping slower than they did with a big, single app. This is the case with most of the other .NET teams in the market. They are rushing to microservices as if it were an offer that only a few can get. They just want to catch the trend and not pay attention to whether it is even worth it for them. To be clear, I am not saying microservices in .NET are a bad choice. They can be the right one, just not for everyone. So let me set the base first. When a traditional monolith starts to slow down, teams usually reach for one of two answers: Either break the application into multiple microservices or keep it as one unit, but with clear internal boundaries separating its modules.…