Progressive Microservices Framework for Node.js

I'm working with microservices all the time. Even when working solo. It's easy to focus on a single domain while developing a single part of the system, just like coding modules or classes.

That said, I'm always wondering why we are conflating so many things when talking about microservices: deployment and scalability, multi-repo and code structure, integration tests and distributed transactions, and so on. I mean: you can definitely build your application as a monolithic process with a microservices' architecture. It's just separation of concerns all the way down and a proper abstraction for the communication channel between the "modules". You don't need to embed your deployment structure in your repos and your code. These are "framework" problems. Just use one that abstracts all the deployment details until it's time to push the code to prod, and you have to split your code in different containers. This is why I'm now settled on Moleculer (https://moleculer.services/). It just works.