Learning When to Use Which Skill: The Art of Contextual Judgment
I had just learned about microservices. They were amazing. Scalable. Independent. Deployable separately. The future of architecture. So naturally, I rewrote my side project as microservices. The project: A simple todo app. Maybe 100 users. What I built: 7 separate services Docker containers for each Kubernetes for orchestration API gateway Service mesh Distributed logging Service discovery Time to build: 3 weeks Time to build as a monolith: 2 days My manager saw it and laughed. ...