If you can't design and implement a clean, well-structured monolith using proper modularization and libraries, you will almost certainly fail to build a clean a

If you can't design and implement a clean, well-structured monolith using proper modularization and libraries, you will almost certainly fail to build a clean and maintainable microservices system. The most unmaintainable system I've ever encountered in my long career was a 30+ year-old microservices architecture consisting of over 100 processes. Even the simplest use cases had devolved into a nightmare of timing issues, fragile dependencies, and unnecessary complexity. Yes let me repeat that it was a 30+ years old microservices architecture. There is nothing new about microservices.