What you are referring to is the Monolith First approach: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html. The

What you are referring to is the Monolith First approach: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html. The key is to identify service boundaries early on and keep them relatively clean so that separating them into microservices at a later point is easier.