> Build your monolith with clean hard edges between modules and functions so that it will be easier later, but build a monolith until you get big enough that mi

> Build your monolith with clean hard edges between modules and functions so that it will be easier later, but build a monolith until you get big enough that microservices is actually a win. I'd like to see software ecosystems that make it possible to develop an application that seems like a monolith to work with (single repository, manageable within a seamless code editing environment, with tests that run across application modules) and yet has the same deployment, monitoring and scale up/out benefits that microservices have. Ensuring that the small-team benefits would continue to exist (comparative to 'traditional' microservices) in that kind of platform could be a challenge -- it's a question of sensibly laying out the application architecture to match the social/organizational structure, and for each of those to be cohesive and effective.