> So let’s say our frontend app is a hairball that’s full of interdependencies. How do we break that link? I think engineers - and managers! - are so excited ab

> So let’s say our frontend app is a hairball that’s full of interdependencies. How do we break that link? I think engineers - and managers! - are so excited about the prospect of escaping the monolith, they forget about the intermediary stage of actually chopping up the hairball. Absolutely this, true in both the back and front ends. The first step to breaking apart any monolith is the extremely boring refactoring process. People want to skip over this because it's not the sexy cool part where you're using Kubernetes and lambdas or whatever other tech will look great on your resume. But I'll say that every monolith->microservice (or MFE) move that I've seen, whether or not it was successful was entirely determined by if the upfront refactoring work was done.