Microservices are still the dominating trend in software architecture today. However, there is an alternative, even for international platforms with millions of users. At Chrono24, we kept things as simple (and as boring) as possible. With minimal operational expenses, we scaled our marketplace to nine million monthly active users worldwide. In this talk, we will give you a peek at our architecture and development processes. We show the benefits and drawbacks of our architecture and where we decided to take a sip of cloud computing to scale our operations.