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Question on the table
Our 4-engineer startup is building a new B2B SaaS. Should we start with a modular monolith or microservices?
Start with a modular monolith. With four engineers your scarcest resource is engineering attention, and microservices tax it heavily: network calls...
A modular monolith is the right default, but the value is in the discipline, not the deployment unit. The failure mode for a small team is not "mon...
It depends on your deployment and scaling story more than on team size. If parts of your product have very different scaling or compliance profiles...
The verdict
Start with a modular monolith - one deployable application - but treat its internal boundaries as first-class. Split the codebase into bounded contexts (billing, identity, and your core product domain), give each an explicit public interface and its own database schema, and enforce those boundaries automatically wit...