There are many aspects of software development that we don't often talk about and instead must be experienced. Once the product is viable, the growth stage poses new architectural challenges that we thought we saw coming but are often not properly prepared for.

We will dissect 3 common but different monolithic product architectures and the decisions that were made to take them to market and the discuss the reality that got in the way.

There are good reasons to avoid micro-services in startups, for those applying the more traditional approach I hope you will leave this session knowing what to expect and how to avoid the mistakes I made as you scale your applications.