Martin Fowler identified a lot of the same tradeoffs in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yko4TbC8cI

One benefit I haven't seen mentioned yet: microservices are effective at reducing the mental "page size" when working on any particular part of the system.

I hope the author can follow up with more evidence to reduce the possibility of these inferences falling victim of the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

Congrats guys, RethinkDB has been a joy to use so far, but the 3rd party .net driver needs some help. I filed an issue here: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3931

Now sure when you were at Microsoft, but Sinosfky and Nadella were division Presidents, not VPs. It is much easier for a VP to get away with being full of shit.

The cultural factors mentioned in the article all sound plausible; I wonder if it has anything to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

Perhaps share your thoughts with us after you have completed your PhD as well?

Sure, just give me a couple more years ;) But cschmidt shared his, and his sentiments are positive.