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We split our monolith into microservices. We did so to make it easier to reason about but morever we did it so that we can apply different data persistence strategies for each entity. A monolith would have us bound to a single persistence type (e.g., SQL) but microservices frees us which makes reasoning the application easier. The monolith didn't work for us so we moved to microservices but we didn't start with a microservice, we started with the monolith and grew and evolved it as we needed too.