A small team of four engineers operates a moderately busy application that handles a uniform mix of features, with no single feature attracting much more traffic than the others. A consultant proposes splitting the application into eight microservices to follow modern architectural practice. The strongest reason to be cautious about this proposal is that:

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Eight separate runtimes carry eight separate baseline footprints, and that operational overhead is not likely to be repaid by independent scaling that the workload itself does not require.

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A team of four engineers is contractually unable to operate more than one or two services at once because of the standard on-call rotation requirements involved in distributed system operation.

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The consultant has not specified which programming language each service should be written in, and microservices are known to require strict language uniformity in order to function correctly.

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Microservices designs are technically incompatible with applications that use a single shared database, which limits their applicability across most ordinary business contexts.

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