[Scarblac]

> But I will also contend that even splitting your system into 2 or 3 services if it's not for strong reasons will 100% slow you down and cause long term headaches.

Even tiny backends usually have, from the start, a database server, some web server / proxy to handle incoming requests and load balance or cache them, and then something running your actual code that requests are passed on to. That's so normal that we don't even think of them as separate services anymore, but they are.