In the main, developers attempt to implement microservices because they have no networking knowledge and do not understand the huge latency of network calls compared to a local call. Concomitantly, they believe that a millisecond is not much longer than a microsecond¹. (In fact, a millisecond is 1,000 times longer than a microsecond.)

From this nonchalant cluelessness, much pain is caused.

1. I’ve had a developer say this to me directly in person