Microservices Are Not a Starting Point. They Are a Destination.

Microservices Are Not a Starting Point. They Are a Destination.

I am going to say something that might get me ratio'd on Tech Twitter.

Most startups do not need microservices. Not right now. Maybe not for years.

I say this as someone who built one anyway.

VerifiedCore — a virtual number verification platform I founded and engineered solo — runs on 14 Spring Boot 3 services. Auth, wallet, payments, notifications, delivery, analytics, eSIM, call plans, reseller, number management, and more. Kafka for async events. gRPC for synchronous calls between services. Separate MongoDB databases per service. An API gateway in front of everything.