Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
May 9, 2025
In a startup, your survival depends on how quickly you can iterate, ship features, and deliver value to end-users. This is where the foundational architecture of your startup plays a big role; additionally, things like your tech stack and choice of programming language directly affect your team’s velocity. The wrong architecture, especially premature microservices, can substantially hurt productivity and contribute to missed goals in delivering software.
I’ve had this experience when working on greenfield projects for early-stage startups, where questionable decisions were made in terms of software architecture that led to half-finished services and brittle, over-engineered and broken local setups, and demoralized teams who struggle maintaining unnecessary complexity.
Source: Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
The debate about how to architect web applications will doubtless never be finished-and ‘it depends’ is going to usually be the answer–but on what?
