Stop Starting with Microservices (Build a Monolith First)

Short summary

An opinion piece arguing that early-stage startups should build a modular monolith before adopting microservices. The author contends that premature microservice adoption wastes time on infrastructure instead of product, and that most apps never reach the scale where a monolith becomes a bottleneck. Companies like Instagram, GitHub, and Shopify succeeded with monolithic architectures for years. The recommendation is to start simple, measure, find bottlenecks, then optimize.

• •Start with a modular monolith structured by domain, not microservices
• •Premature microservice adoption wastes time on infrastructure over product
• •Move to microservices only when business needs demand it: team independence, differential scaling, or deployment bottlenecks

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