Modular-Monolith

Quick takeaways Start with a monolith - don’t create microservices from day one; the overhead isn’t worth it until you have real pain points Microservices solve human problems, not just technical ones - they help teams work independently, not just scale systems Tight coupling over HTTP is still tight coupling - separating services doesn’t automatically give you isolation Watch for signals - lots of calls between services or frequent changes across multiple services suggest wrong boundaries Sometimes joining services is the answer - merging tightly coupled microservices back together can be the right move Introduction We talk about splitting software: when to do it, how to avoid common pitfalls, and why microservices aren’t always the answer.