“The sheer fact that “Big Ball” is a nebulous, plastic metaphor has enabled almost any methodology or architecture that fell out of favor over the past quarter-century, to become associated with it. When microservices makes inroads with organizations, it’s the monolith that gets to wear the crown of thorns.”
https://thenewstack.io/amazon-prime-videos-microservices-move-doesnt-lead-to-a-monolith-after-all/