You can scale a monolith way further than you initially think. We thought that GitLab CI was a logical separate application. Now that we integrated it into GitL

You can scale a monolith way further than you initially think. We thought that GitLab CI was a logical separate application. Now that we integrated it into GitLab we see that this mostly brought advantages. Working with 18 developers and 1000+ contributors on the same application works well. Of course you need to keep your code clean and the models well separated. But it you ship early and often there is very little coordination overhead.