The past few years have seen huge hype around distributed systems and microservices.

Pre-emptive implementation of a distributed architecture has led to many engineering teams struggling with vast complexity and sadly for many, the dreaded "Distributed Monolith".

Some teams are in such a pickle that they are even reverting their distributed applications back to a monolith.

I'm all for designing and developing for future growth, but there is a better way than diving straight into distributed architecture.

Behold, the Modular Monolith.

By design, the modular monolith is "distribu-ready" and in this session, we'll cover the design principles and implementations that make the modular monolith one of the best options for future-proofing your application whilst minimising complexity.