Does migrating a monolithic system to microservices decrease the technical debt?

The migration from a monolithic system to microservices requires a deep refactoring of the system. Therefore, such a migration usually has a big economic impact and companies tend to postpone several activities during this process, mainly to speed up the migration itself, but also because of the demand for releasing new features. We monitored the technical debt of an SME while it migrated from a legacy monolithic system to an ecosystem of...