I am just shy of 10 years professional experience now and I have learned 1 very important lesson:

You can safely ignore the opinion of anyone/anything that claims there's a "golden solution".

That goes for ALL aspects of programming. EVERYTHING has a tradeoff, and it concerns me how often that pro vs con analysis is just never done.

I've worked in all the flavors here:

* Well designed, easy to use interfaces in a massive monolith

* Poorly designed monoliths with litanies of gotchas and edge cases

* Super fast microservices that "just work"

* Garbage applications tightly coupled across a network layer

What it all comes down to is the strength and ability of the design phase. Good engineers = good products.

This shouldn't need to be said but the comments also appear to sidestep that problem with a few proclaiming "golden solutions".

Be weary :)