You can have microservices while still using a monorepo. They are still useful for creating service topology that can segment scaling and permissions, though I

You can have microservices while still using a monorepo. They are still useful for creating service topology that can segment scaling and permissions, though I think people get carried away in the number of services created. I think the eventual sweet spot will be monorepos that have good modular boundaries, and dynamically adjusting service topology that doesn't rely on pre-committed decisions on what code lives in a "service".