[matisseverduyn]

> Exactly, tool vs hammer. Sometimes you made the wrong choice in tool, and then you switch tools.. Nothing wrong with that. A craftsman just knows its tools better. There is no magic bullet here.

Rational take, but I see the debate similar to Roman vs Arabic numerals.

Keeping a tally? Roman. Need to use operators? Arabic. Sometimes you can keep a tally in Arabic (not ideal), and sometimes you can do basic operations on Roman numerals (not ideal).

However, when you want to start using variables, only one tool enables this easily.

I can't architect the types of redundant and properly separated interoperable systems with a monolith that microservices otherwise enable.

So the desire to move forward isn't the need to find a magic bullet, but the next evolution of an existing ability that unlocks new capabilities...

(I don't think calculus would have been discovered using Roman numerals)

[TeeWEE]

No, but you can start a business with a singlesystem, keep things well decoupled (hard / software engineer is hard).. Then you gradually run some parts of the systems in different docker containers, then at some point you completely decoupled systems and have different teams handle different service boundaries. You could still have the core system be a big bigger, and sometimes referred to as monolith. But monolith vs microservices is a polarises the discussion, its a gradual scale. Its the engineering, and keeping things separated that matters.