IMHO, the monoliths vs microservices debate is akin to monorepos vs multi-repos: they are both strategies used to share work when your organization grows. Both

IMHO, the monoliths vs microservices debate is akin to monorepos vs multi-repos: they are both strategies used to share work when your organization grows. Both can work well, depending on your tooling and organization. But do not forget that those abstractions layers you add, while very useful (say, for release velocity), might also be a direct application of Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law Which means that refactoring some code, might sometime require refactoring your organization, so if you lack the ability to do that incrementally, you might converge to an ossified system that stops evolving.