They went to 50+ services in a few months, were applying the same policies across all services. It sounds like they didn't plan well enough and jumped straight into it, without any good DevOps or infrastructure mindset. It was a disaster waiting to happen. This shouldn't be an article that people read and say "Oh Im never using Microservices". This should be an article people read and say WOW that is exactly the right way to NOT break apart a monolith.