> My suspicion is that any "cloud service" that isn't some proof-of-concept one-off is also filled to the brim with bloat, you just don't see it as a customer.
Hey, encapsulation is a decent mitigation to complexity issues.
uh yeah until you need to modify it, then it becomes another complexity issue. Or in the case of 'microservices', now you have to solve a distributed systems problem.
No, you're still better off having clearly defined boundaries. I will grant that multiple systems can have emergent effects that are more painful to debug, but to the degree that things can actually be made independent I think it helps.
