Because complexity kills. Something that has yet to be learned by the new generation of developers. While disciples of FAANG create a gazillion microservices that they spend most of their time debugging in production ("observability"), smaller teams just get shit done.
Since "monolith" has become a dirty word, it would be instructive to remember that some of the major companies out there are still light on distributed systems, which we all knew even back in the olden days of the internet were an absolute killer of efficiency and productivity. Yes, "microservices" is just another word for it - believe it or not, there was life before Node and Docker.
Whatsapp, Dropbox, Instagram, StackOverflow - all existed or still exist as one easy-to-maintain application. But go ahead, "be like Google".
Since "monolith" has become a dirty word, it would be instructive to remember that some of the major companies out there are still light on distributed systems, which we all knew even back in the olden days of the internet were an absolute killer of efficiency and productivity. Yes, "microservices" is just another word for it - believe it or not, there was life before Node and Docker.
Whatsapp, Dropbox, Instagram, StackOverflow - all existed or still exist as one easy-to-maintain application. But go ahead, "be like Google".