Not sure I understand what the message of the article is. Sure not everything companies with big scalability requirements do, makes sense for smaller projects.

Not sure I understand what the message of the article is. Sure not everything companies with big scalability requirements do, makes sense for smaller projects. Nevertheless some principles still make sense. E.g. a mono-repo can make sense (again depends on what you want to build) and it is even easier to handle at a small scale.