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If your team is dysfunctional, I bet your micro services will be equally dysfunctional. If you don't do them correctly, the end result will be an even bigger mess than the monolith. Like everything, there are many more ways to screw it up than to do it right.

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I think dysfunctional is being used as a term of endearment to some degree. But I agree, the interfaces become the catalysts for the long meetings, the code debates, etc. It doesn't end up mattering if it becomes a question of "fix your service" vs "fix your client" arguments.

You are correct - dysfunctional as in 'strong willed people that want to move at a different pace', not 'incompetent' :-).

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