Our ride‑hailing backend was bursting at the seams as traffic soared.
We carved the booking monolith into four carefully bounded services:
Ride, Creation, Cancellation and Pricing.
The first weeks felt slower—extra repos, more CI pipelines, cross‑service tracing to set up.
But when demand spiked to ten times normal traffic, autoscaling kept everything green.
That evening I realised that embracing short‑term complexity can unlock massive long‑term agility.