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Microservices are fundamentally organizational tools designed to enable independent team scaling and autonomous deployments, not primarily technical solutions for performance or code quality issues. While they solve critical coordination challenges as companies grow, they introduce significant distributed systems complexity—including network latency, consistency issues, and inter-team communication overhead—that organizations must actively manage. IT leaders should adopt microservices only when organizational scaling is the core bottleneck, not as a default architecture, and must budget for the substantial operational and coordination costs that accompany this distributed approach.