Kent Beck was one of the first software engineers I admired when getting into the field 7 years ago!
We are undergoing a mono->service shift at our company, and I think for reasons in agreement with this article. The main goals being to handle persistence of high write data beyond stable capabilities of our monolith, build services whose logic perspective deviates from the monolith (recommendations, text generation, search), and add new features that have a clear purpose and boundaries thought decoupled services.
But we still invest in the monolith, and develop all important things on it. It's our camel.
We are undergoing a mono->service shift at our company, and I think for reasons in agreement with this article. The main goals being to handle persistence of high write data beyond stable capabilities of our monolith, build services whose logic perspective deviates from the monolith (recommendations, text generation, search), and add new features that have a clear purpose and boundaries thought decoupled services.
But we still invest in the monolith, and develop all important things on it. It's our camel.