MICROSERVICES ARE A TAX YOUR STARTUP PROBABLY CAN'T AFFORD

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Premature adoption of microservices can reduce startup velocity due to increased complexity in deployment, development, and testing. Monoliths, while potentially messy, allow teams to focus on delivering customer value and have simpler deployment supported by strong community frameworks. Microservices should be reserved for addressing real scaling bottlenecks and only implemented when the organizational structure and operational overhead can support them.