> We had a monolith product developed by several geographically separated teams whose development crawled to a snail's pace and whose full build took an eye-rol

> We had a monolith product developed by several geographically separated teams whose development crawled to a snail's pace and whose full build took an eye-rolling amount of time. Micro-services allowed us to break this. We also have a distributed dev team, but decided against using microservices. Instead, we have a monolith with a plugin architecture, so remote teams can just add independent modules to add functionality. Occasionally changes are made to the monolithic application, and these changes are heavily scrutinized. The plugin architecture provides many of the benefits of a microservice, while also allowing for more flexibility on occasion, and eliminates flaky network calls that are inherit to microservices.