[staticassertion]

Yes, I can definitely attest to this. For all of the people saying "start with a monolith", having started with a Monolith I can tell you to start with microservices. Even if they all live on the same box, even if they live in the same process, build your software from the start with microservice architecture in mind (eg: understand your boundaries, develop against them - if you can't break a component behind a boundary into a separate process trivially, it's a bad component).

[HatchedLake721]

That’s called modular architecture and has nothing to do with microservices.

[staticassertion]

Microservices encompasses quite a lot, including designing where your module/service boundaries lie. The same ideas exist in many different places (DDD).