Introduction The idea of building a system entirely composed of microservices is always tempting for a developer, whether for the challenge itself or to stay ahead of scaling needs. However, analyzing trade-offs and choosing what best fits our context is also part of our profession. A very common decision today at the beginning of a project is to build modular projects as a way of anticipating a future need to split out a dedicated service. This approach adds less initial complexity than a microservices architecture, while keeping modules sufficiently independent for a potential future separation if needed. In this article, I will show hot to set up Gradle to enable modules on a monolithic project.…