February 8, 2026
Rethinking Monoliths, Modular Monoliths, and Microservices — Without the Hype For almost a decade, the industry has been shouting from rooftops: “Microservices or die!” If your architecture isn’t a constellation of dozens of services, event streams, service meshes, API gateways, sidecars, and autoscaling clusters, are you even doing real engineering? But here’s the uncomfortable truth: