Microservices can improve delivery speed by allowing teams to ship independently, but they increase operational complexity.
If you don’t have strong monitoring, CI/CD, and clear service boundaries, microservices can slow you down instead of speeding you up.
For many SMEs, a modular monolith is the best starting point: clean boundaries inside one deployable unit.
Choose microservices when independent scaling, compliance separation, or team autonomy is a real constraint — not because it’s trendy.