What if the architecture that "doesn't scale" is the one that gets you to production fastest?
I keep seeing the same pattern. A dev starts a side project, draws 8 services on a whiteboard before writing a single line of code, spends three weekends wiring up service discovery and inter-service auth, and the actual product logic is 200 lines across all of them. The project dies in a Docker Compose file.
Microservices aren't wrong. But they solve problems most early-stage projects don't have. And the cost of splitting too early is way higher than the cost of splitting too late.
People talk about this like it's binary. Monolith or microservices. But there are actually four architecture patterns on the spectrum, and two of them don't get enough attention.
The monolith. One deployable unit. All modules share a process, a database, and a release cycle. Not a dirty word. Just means you ship one thing.
