Published onNovember 3, 2025A Modular Monolith Is Not a Compromise on Microservices — It Turns the Split into an Option You Can Exercise Later.NETArchitectureModular-MonolithCQRSArchitecture-TestingA first-principles look at why "module isolation" and "distributed operations" can be decoupled, and why the right call for a 1–2 person team is a modular monolith — deferring the cost of microservices until you actually need to pay it.