Comment by Lio

I worked at a startup where a new architect decided everything needed to be split into micro services for “scaling”.

Thing is we were in an illiquid market that didn’t require the kind of scale he envisioned.

Long story short we burnt a hell of a lot of runway building something that was painful to work with compared to the monolith. It did not end well.

Micro services are something that sounds good to the inexperienced but are almost never right for an immature business looking for market fit.

If you really know you can’t scale with just a big box from the outset use something like Elixir or Erlang. Otherwise stick to a modular monolith for as long as you can.