We destroyed the Monolith to save ourselves, but we only created a hydra.
The Fallacy of Decoupling
We thought breaking the app into 50 services would make it easier to manage. Instead, we turned function calls into network requests. We turned compile-time errors into runtime timeouts.
Entropy Always Increases
A monolith is a crystal—ordered, rigid, fragile. Microservices are a gas—chaotic, fluid, expanding. You trade structure for energy. Maintaining order in a microservices architecture requires a constant input of energy (DevOps) to fight the natural tendency towards chaos.