I've been experimenting with this sort of thing for awhile, but without automation to determine the deployment topology (nice!). Lacking a better name, I've bee

I've been experimenting with this sort of thing for awhile, but without automation to determine the deployment topology (nice!). Lacking a better name, I've been calling it a monolithic micro service architecture. Obviously nothing here prevents you from creating a distributed monolith, but it can allow a smaller team to enjoy better horizontal scaling without as much cost, while still retaining ease of forward development.