"In the olden days, a software application was built as a large monolith (...)" - people should stop writing this kind of shit.
You can hear this nonsense from some poor quality bloggers. People who are serious about it say things like "for most startups microservices is bad idea", "monolith should be starting point in most cases", "there is a price that comes with microservices", "modularised monoliths are often pefect fit" etc. this is coming not from random internet dudes but from Sam Newman author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices", Martin Fowler etc.
Microservices/services/monoliths are one of design kinds, they best fit into different setups.
You can hear this nonsense from some poor quality bloggers. People who are serious about it say things like "for most startups microservices is bad idea", "monolith should be starting point in most cases", "there is a price that comes with microservices", "modularised monoliths are often pefect fit" etc. this is coming not from random internet dudes but from Sam Newman author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices", Martin Fowler etc.
Microservices/services/monoliths are one of design kinds, they best fit into different setups.
References:
* https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/04/microservices_last_re...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTdnfD6s5Q
etc.