This is the approach we used at a certain budget shaving startup and it worked very well. The boosts to dev speed from a monolith / monorepo over a more "scala

This is the approach we used at a certain budget shaving startup and it worked very well. The boosts to dev speed from a monolith / monorepo over a more "scalable" approach are huge and allow you to focus on business problems instead of self imposed tech challenges.