Comment by cogman10

Once upon a time, that's what a microservice was. A monolith was the company's software all in one software package.

I think what changed things is FAAS came along and people started describing nanoservices as microservices which created really dumb decisions.

I've worked on a true monolith and it wasn't fun. Having your change rolled back because another team made a mistake and it was hard to isolate the two changes was really rough.