As our applications grow, we start thinking of better ways to organize and scale our growing codebases. We've recently seen Microservices start to emerge as a prominent response to Monoliths, but is it all really worth it? What about our other options? We often romanticize leaving our current architecture situation because we believe it will cure what ails us. However, architecture certainly has no silver bullet . Beam up with me as we explore the past, present, and future of reconsidering architecture.