Hot take: Your early-stage startup does not need microservices. 🛑
Too many teams adopt complex distributed architectures too early because 'that's what big tech does.' What they actually get is massive network latency, deployment nightmares, and bloated cloud bills.
AI is incredible for generating a quick prototype. You can 'vibe-code' a frontend and a few API routes in an afternoon.
But the moment you hit real production traffic, the cracks show. Deadlocks in PostgreSQL, unhandled race conditions, and unstructured data models will silently...