Does Every Startup Really Need Microservices? 🤔

Lately, I’ve been working on a project with features like e-commerce integration, video conferencing, and event-based scaling.

The big question? Monolith or Microservices?

The hype around microservices is real. Many advocate for it as the default architecture, but here’s what I’ve learned:

✅ When Microservices Make Sense:

You're building a complex project that needs to scale independently.

You have separate teams, each handling different services.

You need flexibility in your software.

You need fault isolation (if one service crashes, the whole system doesn’t go down).

⚠️ When Microservices Are Overkill:

You're an early-stage startup with a small team.

There's high inter-service communication (leading to a distributed monolith).

The deployment complexity outweighs the benefits.

For our project, we started with a modular monolith—keeping services decoupled internally while avoiding the complexity of full-blown microservices. As we scale, we’ll extract services only when needed.

🔥 My take:

Don’t adopt microservices just because they’re trendy. Start with a well-structured monolith and scale when necessary.

While learning about microservices, I also came across an interesting and crucial design pattern: Saga Pattern. It helps manage distributed transactions in a microservices architecture—a game-changer for handling data consistency across services.

Have you worked with microservices before? What’s your take on when to use them? Let’s discuss! 👇

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