Comment by adamconroy

As always, it depends. Personally I have been working for a corporation where we use a microservice approach and it has been great for productivity, turn around times on projects, and the systems/services are quite easy to understand. We are full CI. Our microservices maybe aren't as micro as others, we have a pattern of having monolith 'data services' and micro business/functional/api services. The monolith 'data service', effectively a layer that exposes CRUD over data, in some cases has 10 microservices that interface. I could go on and on, but it works very well for us.