Headless setup for a growing ecom brand

Running a Shopify store out of Austin and we are hitting a wall with the monolithic setup. Adding custom features is a nightmare and the devs keep complaining about the backend being a tangled mess. Anyone here moved to a headless architecture and actually liked it?

A lot of mid-sized brands are jumping into composable commerce because it lets you swap out the cart, the CMS, and the checkout individually without rebuilding the whole thing from scratch, and there is a solid open-source platform that does exactly this right here medusajs.com/ . The biggest advantage is not being locked into one vendor for every function, you can use the best tool for each job and stitch them together via API while your frontend team keeps full control of the storefront experience.

Make sure your devops person sets up proper monitoring early on, when you are orchestrating five different services a broken webhook at 2 a.m. can silently nuke your inventory sync and nobody notices until customers start yelling.