I am just shy of 10 years professional experience now and I have learned 1 very important lesson: You can safely ignore the opinion of anyone/anything that cla

I am just shy of 10 years professional experience now and I have learned 1 very important lesson: You can safely ignore the opinion of anyone/anything that claims there's a "golden solution". That goes for ALL aspects of programming. EVERYTHING has a tradeoff, and it concerns me how often that pro vs con analysis is just never done. I've worked in all the flavors here: * Well designed, easy to use interfaces in a massive monolith * Poorly designed monoliths with litanies of gotchas and edge cases * Super fast microservices that "just work" * Garbage applications tightly coupled across a network layer What it all comes down to is the strength and ability of the design phase. Good engineers = good products. This shouldn't need to be said but the comments also appear to sidestep that problem with a few proclaiming "golden solutions". Be weary :)