[keithnz]

some of the worse evils I've seen in software development is a team of 5 trying to act as if they were a team of 1000. There are inherent costs in microservices, they don't come without tradeoffs. Those tradeoffs seem uncessary for a 5 engineer team (sometimes it makes sense). Not only that, it's very unlikely you are going to predict correctly how your product will evolve by the time you get to 1000 so even if you did microservices, they probablly won't be right for the future evolved product which will likely include new innovations you can't yet design for.

All you do, as a team of 5, is write nice modular composable well tested code. That way your code base will adapt as you grow. It's quite likely going from 5 to 1000 people is going to involve a number of large architectural shifts during the life of the product.