Who thinks that more i/o and more frequent cold starts are more performant?
Where I see micoservices as very useful is for elasticity and modularization. It's probably slower than a monolith at your scale but you don't want to fallover when loads start increasing and you need to scale horizontally. Microservices with autoscaling can make that very useful.
But of course, updating services can be a nightmare. It's a game of tradeoffs.
Who thinks that more i/o and more frequent cold starts are more performant?
Where I see micoservices as very useful is for elasticity and modularization. It's probably slower than a monolith at your scale but you don't want to fallover when loads start increasing and you need to scale horizontally. Microservices with autoscaling can make that very useful.
But of course, updating services can be a nightmare. It's a game of tradeoffs.