> based on solid understandings of the problems the existing one has This. It strikes me that developing a clean monolith with well separated concerns and then

> based on solid understandings of the problems the existing one has This. It strikes me that developing a clean monolith with well separated concerns and then deciding to pull off chunks into microservices, as being infinitely smarter than the reverse - finding your microservices to be higher interdependent, and trying to glue them back together. YAGNI should be a over-arching principle when starting out a project (and possibly, a business).