But , It usually isn’t a smart move.

Spoke to a team — 3 developers, 6 microservices.

Everything was “scalable”… except their speed.

• Simple changes touched multiple services
• Debugging meant jumping across repos
• Deployments became coordination work

So I told them: Microservices don’t solve scale of traffic.

They solve scale of teams.

If you don’t have multiple teams with clear ownership, you’re just adding complexity early.

By the by , Shopify still have monolith architecture.

Start with a modular monolith. Earn microservices later ( if necessary )