Thanks for the invitation and your engagement.

I do disagree with some of your opinions, but I find them interesting and valuable. I've definitely changed my mind about things before, so you might be right on all of these counts - but our experiences might differ enough to have different opinions.

> Here's a hint at the fundamental disconnect. Services shouldn't talk to other services. Period. Not if that can be avoided.

I agree in principle, but I've not been able to see this followed in a large sprawling engineering organisation.

I will definitely join the slack once I have some distance from this. To be honest, I didn't expect this to be posted on HN at this point in the project - and HN can be somewhat merciless :)

Thanks again for engaging with me. You've inspired me to do some changes - especially in how I position the value prop and I learned a lot from reading your references. Much appreciated :)