The fallacy of “scalability from day 1”

Imagine you are starting a new project. The team is motivated, the whiteboard has been wiped clean, and the first question in the room is: “Which microservices do we need?”

Do you know that? You start a new project with a clean domain model. Your Order entity is perfectly normalized, the database relationships are cleanly defined (3rd normal form), and saving an order is lightning fast. Everything feels right.