The software industry has a dangerous habit of copying solutions without understanding the problems they were built to solve. This blog is about that habit — and what happens when you finally stop. The Microservices Dream vs. The Microservices Reality For the past decade, microservices have been sold as the gold standard of modern software architecture. Break your app into small, independent services. Deploy them separately. Scale them individually. Sleep better at night. Sounds perfect. And for some teams, it genuinely is. But here is the part nobody talks about at conferences: a massive wave of engineering teams that adopted microservices are quietly rolling them back. Not because microservices are bad. But because they adopted an advanced solution to a problem they did not actually have yet. Amazon Prime Video moved a distributed microservices system back into a monolith and cut infrastructure costs by over 90%. Segment consolidated 50+ microservices back into a monolith.…