It’s easy these days to fall into the trap of starting to design your whole application with a microservices architecture…. Because, you know, that’s what everyone is doing, right?

But no, no. I’m not going to deny that Microservices have their advantages, specifically in a distributed and scalable world like the one we need to deal with. The problem may be in the approach we are taking. Are we considering the microservices architecture as a goal, or as a means to a purpose?

In this talk we will think in a different approach: we will go back to the basics, and see how following DDD, CQRS and Event-Sourcing practices will drive our application design and evolution in such a way that we will start with a monolith but we will have the ability to scale into a microservices architecture more or less easily when (and more importantly: if) we need to.