Why I Moved Us Off Microservices Back to a Monolith (And What the Original Decision Got Wrong)

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Splitting the app into eight services meant most services had one, maybe one and a half people who actually understood them end to end. The "independent teams owning independent services" model doesn't work when the teams don't exist yet. Eight services meant eight sets of CI pipelines, eight sets of monitoring dashboards, eight things that could each fail independently at 2am.

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