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c/Founder Talks • May 21, 2026

Is it worth migrating from monolith to microservices for a medium sized app?

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Our application is currently a monolithic architecture. We have about 50k monthly active users. Some of our developers are pushing to migrate to microservices for better scalability, but I am worried about the added complexity.

At what point does the switch actually make sense?

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ThomasJuh • May 22
This heavily depends on your feature set, but for a solid React/Node.js MVP, I would budget between $25k and $40k. Anything lower might compromise on quality or use cheap templates that will be hard to scale later.
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Centaur Interactive • May 21
If they are joining pre-product and taking equal risk (e.g. no salary), it should be close to 50/50. If you already have funding and can pay them a salary, it could be anywhere from 10% to 30%.
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Ravi Bagarwa • May 27
nice to see you
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Ravi Bagarwa • Jun 13
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Ravi Bagarwa • May 30
hello ok thats
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