The Business Case for Microservices: When It Makes Sense (and When It Doesn’t)

Microservices architecture has become the default assumption for modern enterprise systems. But the overhead of distributed systems — network latency, service discovery, distributed tracing, eventual consistency — is often underestimated.

Start with a Modular Monolith

For teams fewer than 20 engineers, a well-structured modular monolith almost always delivers faster than a microservices architecture. Split into services only when organisational or scaling boundaries demand it.