The Microservice Tax
Network latency, serialization costs, distributed tracing, eventual consistency. The list of problems you invite when you split your app is massive. For a team of 5, it's a productivity killer.
Modular Monoliths
We can have boundaries without network calls. Using tools like NX or Turborepo, we can enforce strict module boundaries (e.g. 'billing' cannot import 'auth' directly) while keeping everything in a single deployable unit.
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