After over-engineering the heck out of my last project, having 8 services with 2-3 microservices each across nearly 20 repos, all being handled by myself only, I decided I well keep it simple for my current project.
Next.js frontend, monolith backend, single postgres db, in a monorepo. tRPC and drizzle make the DX a breeze. This along with standard practices like dependency injection and clean architecture, I was able to add a new collection of api end to end in 30 min while watching a movie on discord together with a cofounder.
Although this isn’t perfect. I gotta teach my co-founder trunk based development and stacking. Long lived dev branch isn’t working. I’m looking forward to how to best do CI (rawdog or use Nx/Turborepo), make use of neon.tech branching and more to enable high velocity.
If anyone of you have any suggestion feel free to share.

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The author discusses their shift from an over-engineered project with multiple microservices to a simpler setup using Next.js for the frontend, a monolith backend, and a single PostgreSQL database within a monorepo. They highlight improved development experience with tRPC and Drizzle, and outline current challenges like teaching trunk-based development and optimizing CI processes.

How it feels to keep it simple stupid

You can use Biomejs, which is one solution for linting, prettier and type checking and it’s amazing. I recently used it in my <a href="http://ConvoForm.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">ConvoForm.com</a>, And I get rid of many Eslint dependencies and configs.
And also Turborepo is great.
You can chekc my repo: <a href="https://github.com/growupanand/ConvoForm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://github.com/growupanand/ConvoForm</a>

Still a bit complex IMO :D
could probably get away with a simple SvelteKit repo :)

No need to over-engineer your project to serve 7 customers