When Microservices Are the Wrong Answer
Daniel Osei
Director of Engineering · April 8, 2026 · 5 min read
We've been called in to both build microservices architectures and to help teams walk them back. The second engagement is more common than the industry likes to admit.
Microservices solve organizational scaling problems — letting independent teams ship independently — far more reliably than they solve technical scaling problems.
If your engineering team is under 20 people, a well-structured modular monolith will almost always out-deliver a microservices architecture, with a fraction of the operational overhead.
The right trigger for splitting services is a demonstrated team-coordination bottleneck, not a belief that 'real' companies use microservices.
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