It comes down to Conway's Law [0]: > organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures

It comes down to Conway's Law [0]: > organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations If you are a single team producing it, then build a monolith. If it is a diverse set of teams collaborating, then build microservices. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law