I would go much further: Don't build a modular monolith first, build a spaghetti monolith first. You need to not die. That's your first prioritization. A "mod

I would go much further: Don't build a modular monolith first, build a spaghetti monolith first. You need to not die. That's your first prioritization. A "modular monolith" like the article talks about is still worrying about success. You should worry about failure!