Should we decompose our monolith?

From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adoptinga microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of theleast-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make.Even migrating to a different database technology is generally a less expensive change than moving from monolithto microservices or from microservices to monolith.

The industry has in many ways gone full circle on that debate, from most hyperscale...