While microservices take the industry by a storm, we chose to decompose our age old monolith into (no, not microservices!) a new monolith! A modular monolith. Join me to understand why we at Atlassian, decided to break down our mammoth monolith, why we chose to not go down the microservice route, and the what and whys of the new, shiny modular monolith we are working on!