“When passing that data across network lines, though–as most microservices do–adds five to seven orders of magnitude greater latency to the communication.”
Neward lines up microservice marketing next to EJB brochures from twenty years ago and Oracle Tuxedo from forty, and you can’t tell them apart. Amazon’s actual point was independent teams with fewer blockers. The industry heard “put a network between every function call.” Splitting a monolith across the wire buys you five to seven orders of magnitude of latency and an org chart problem you still haven’t solved.