Here's the complexity story, if you're curious. 1. Terraform repo for AWS deploy 2. Step functions application logic (server-side polling daemon) 3. Email se

Here's the complexity story, if you're curious. 1. Terraform repo for AWS deploy 2. Step functions application logic (server-side polling daemon) 3. Email service template 4. Feature flag configuration 5. (Something in the monolith to trigger the workflow, probably?) This wasn't an entirely small engineering org - 300-400+ devs? I agree, though, is the point. I think folk don't put enough thought into the development story when going this route. I think monorepos are the only sensible way to go about it once folk have cross-service work to accomplish, and monoliths are a _good_ way to build applications for longer than folk give them credit. That said, some monoliths are more productive than others. Slow startup/compilation can destroy productivity.