Microservice dogma nearly tanked our seed round

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Key takeaways:

• Microservices are an organizational decision. Every service boundary creates a boundary people must navigate, an expensive tax on learning for early-stage startups.
• Resilience means different things at different stages. When infrastructure failed, the platform survived but the engineering org didn’t.
• Architecture should solve today’s bottlenecks, not tomorrow’s ambitions.

We thought we were making the responsible engineering decision. We had read the architecture blogs, watched the conference talks, and done everything except ask whether any of those corporate speakers were also trying to close a seed round with four engineers and a prayer.

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