Unpopular opinion: Your MVP doesn’t need microservices.
In my experience as a tech lead building early-stage SaaS products: We once tried to go all-in on microservices architecture right from the MVP stage. It sounded right: scalable, modular, flexible. But the reality? It was a pain to manage. Too many repos, too many CI/CD pipelines, duplicated auth, monitoring everywhere, and so much effort…