Most teams building microservices are one bad deployment away from a full system meltdown.

Not because their engineers are bad.

Not because they picked the wrong cloud provider.

Because they built a distributed monolith — and dressed it up like a real microservices architecture.

I've watched brilliant teams do this. Long chains of synchronous REST calls. No timeouts. No circuit breakers. No queue monitoring. Everything holding hands in production, pretending that's fine.