Agreed. I would add an extra thought around "Try to go monolith until things really breakdown" but you get at that in so far as the point where things breakdown

Agreed. I would add an extra thought around "Try to go monolith until things really breakdown" but you get at that in so far as the point where things breakdown is where either: a) engineers are afraid of or find making changes difficult b) uptime issues result in heavy endpoints/services taking down others To your point, microservices should be introduced expressly to solve those two problems, and not before.