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I'm mostly a solo developer now, and I'm working with microservices all the time. It's very good to focus on a single domain while developing a single part of the system, just like coding modules or classes.

That said, I'm always wondering why we are conflating so many different things when talking about microservices: deployment and scalability, multi-repo and code structure, integration tests and distributed transactions, and so on. I mean: you can definitely build your application in a monolithic system with a microservices architecture. It's just separation of concerns all the way down and a proper abstraction for the communication channel. You don't need to embed your system architecture in your repos and your code. These are "framework" problems. Just use one that abstracts all the deployment details until it's time to push the code to prod and you have to split your code in different containers. For example, I'm now settled on Moleculer (https://moleculer.services/). It just works.

(edit: grammar)