Most teams adopt microservices too early. Not because they need scale. Not because they’ve outgrown their monolith. But because they think it makes them look “mature.” In reality, microservices multiply complexity, especially on your DevOps pipeline. When you have dozens of CI/CD pipelines to maintain, distributed observability with no clarity fragmented ownership, brittle interfaces, and release coordination nightmares.

Architecture isn’t a badge; it’s leverage. If your team isn’t ready to own a distributed system, microservices won’t help you move faster. They’ll slow you down.

In this new article, I explain why microservices should be a last resort, not a starting point—and what to build instead.

Let me know how your team approached the shift—or avoided it

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