The Modular Monolith: Scale Without Microservices

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We often justify over-engineered architectures: 20 microservices, Kubernetes, and message brokers by saying "we're building for scale." But if you only have 500 users, you aren't building for scale, you're building for scale you don't have. 🔗 Kurrent https://kurrent.io 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3RKA4vunFAfrfxiJhPEplw?sub_confirmation=1 💥 Join this channel to get access to a private Discord Server and any source code in my videos. 🔥 Join via Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeopinion ✔️ Join via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3RKA4vunFAfrfxiJhPEplw/join 📝 Blog: https://codeopinion.com 👋 Twitter: https://twitter.com/codeopinion ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcomartin/ 📧 Weekly Updates: https://mailchi.mp/63c7a0b3ff38/codeopinion 0:00 - The 500 User / 20 Microservice Trap 1:05 - Why "Scale" is a Vague Requirement 2:00 - Every Pattern Has a Trade-off 3:42 - Logical vs. Physical Boundaries 4:35 - The Distributed Monolith Trap 5:33 - The Loosely Coupled Monolith 6:48 - Adding Async Processing Pragmatically 8:20 - Why Messaging Doesn't Fix Bad Boundaries 9:55 - Temporal, Data, and Behavioral Coupling 10:28 - Building a Path for Scale