--- title: Why You Probably Don’t Need Microservices | daily.dev description: A practical overview of microservices architecture covering when it makes sense and when it doesn't. Starting from a monolithic application, the discussion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-probably-don-t-need-microservices-mtpdgi4gm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why You Probably Don’t Need Microservices | daily.dev og:description: A practical overview of microservices architecture covering when it makes sense and when it doesn't. Starting from a monolithic application, the discussion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-probably-don-t-need-microservices-mtpdgi4gm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MtPdGi4gm.png og:image:alt: Why You Probably Don’t Need Microservices og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why You Probably Don’t Need Microservices **[Web Dev Cody](https://daily.dev/sources/webdevcody)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical overview of microservices architecture covering when it makes sense and when it doesn't. Starting from a monolithic application, the discussion walks through splitting off services like auth and payments, explaining benefits such as independent scaling and team ownership, while highlighting significant downsides: increased network latency, deployment orchestration complexity, cross-service coordination overhead, and the need for additional infrastructure like service discovery (Consul) and container orchestration (Kubernetes). The core argument is that for small teams and startups, a monolith is simpler and often sufficient, and microservices complexity is primarily justified at large organizational scale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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