You have a good point in that in the early stages, any app is likely not to be a "monolith", but it's less about size/LOC and more about the design ethic of the

You have a good point in that in the early stages, any app is likely not to be a "monolith", but it's less about size/LOC and more about the design ethic of the architecture itself. If you build your codebase internally with service level abstractions in mind, you can gain a lot of benefit without the cost of the network or the additional errors it can introduce. Thanks for reading!