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Two years ago, I led the effort to break our company's aging monolith into microservices. It was the standard story: the monolith had become unwieldy, deployments were risky all-day affairs, and different teams kept stepping on each other's toes. The microservices transformation was painful but ultimately successful—teams could deploy independently, scaling became more granular, and we finally escaped dependency hell.

But something interesting happened along the way. As the industry accumulated more experience with microservices, the conversation began to shift. The pendulum that had swung hard toward extreme service decomposition started to swing back. Teams realized that the complexity they had pushed out of their codebases had reappeared in their infrastructure. The "microservices tax" was real, and sometimes steep.

Today, I want to share where I see microservices architecture heading, based on both my team's journey and broader industry trends. We're entering what I call the "post-monolith world"—where we've collectively learned enough hard lessons to move beyond the false monolith/microservices dichotomy.