Unpopular opinion: most small SaaS teams don’t need microservices.
I’ve watched 3-person teams spend 6 months building complex infrastructure for traffic they might not see for years — if ever.
One simple codebase you understand beats a complicated system you’re stuck debugging at 2am
"This makes no sense." Reads the error again.
The error message wasn’t confusing.
You just didn’t want it to be right.
Sometimes the answer has been on your screen the whole time.
Keep building.
Great engineer 10 years ago: Knowing 1 programming language and framework.
Great engineer today: A tech-agnostic tech lead with good problem-solving abilities and people skills.