[nprateem]

Yes. It's better than burning £100ks by over complicating things and wasting your developer's time.

Most startups fail. You need to cover as much ground as possible while you have runway, not cock about with microservices.

[brodouevencode]

You're basing your entire argument on the org in question being a startup, and missing the rest of the 98% of the market.

[hnthrowaway6543]

In the context of choosing monolith vs microservices first, it's a safe bet that we're talking about startups; in the other 98% of the market you don't have a choice because something already exists.

[brodouevencode]

What? You don't think large enterprises also have to make these decisions?

[hnthrowaway6543]

Is there a large enterprise that exists in 2024 that doesn't already have existing software?

[brodouevencode]

Is there a large enterprise that exists in 2024 that isn't currently building new software?