As Matt Easton says: "Context!" I think "5 Whys" might be a useful exercise here. Why was building X as a microservice faster? [reason]? Well, why was that?

As Matt Easton says: "Context!" I think "5 Whys" might be a useful exercise here. Why was building X as a microservice faster? [reason]? Well, why was that? My general rules for this are to always start in a monolith and break things out as they start to fail or break other parts of the codebase, and don't go all in just because you now have one microservice that works well by itself I like this. A key tactic is to always do things, such that one can change one's mind!