Rule of thumb: Number of full-time backend engineers divideed by 5 and rounded up is number of microservices you can afford. E.g. if you have 500 employees hav

Rule of thumb: Number of full-time backend engineers divideed by 5 and rounded up is number of microservices you can afford. E.g. if you have 500 employees having 100 microservices is fine. If you have 3 engineers and try to have 20 microservices you are wasting tons of time, you should do monolith.