Depends on how big that monolith gets. Microservices can definitely be overkill, but at some point its a real liability to not have well isolated abstractions.

Depends on how big that monolith gets. Microservices can definitely be overkill, but at some point its a real liability to not have well isolated abstractions. Yes, you can do that within a monolith, but the temptation to break isolation is just greater when its all in the same folder/repo.