We&#x27;ve also benefitted from moving from a monolith to SOA-esque services.  IMO, The thing that DHH is failing to mention is that Monoliths work great <i>when your application looks something like Basecamp</i>.<p>Basecamp, while a great tool, is a &quot;simple application&quot;.  I don&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not well built, I don&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s easy to build, I don&#x27;t mean it was fast to build, but if you look at what it does, it&#x27;s all vanilla stuff.<p>Many other companies don&#x27;t have the luxury of building apps that look like basecamp, and hence, our architectures are more complex.<p>When he writes these kinds of articles, they always feel somewhat strawman-ish.<p>At the end of the day, each software project has it&#x27;s own unique requirements that will govern success.  We got paid the nice salaries we do because it is up to our discretion to understand what is the most efficient architecture for what we are trying to solve.