"Micro" in this case relates to the services scope, not its operational footprint. So if Netflix has a "User logon" service, and a "payment processing" service

"Micro" in this case relates to the services scope, not its operational footprint. So if Netflix has a "User logon" service, and a "payment processing" service, used across their clients clients you might be looking at a couple of "microservice"s with hundreds of related employees. Imagine services for Googles search autocomplete, ML, or analytics... As the article states the "micro" aspect is mostly in terms of deployment responsibility, freeing those 10-1000 employees from thinking about the totality of Googles/Netflixes' operations before rolling out a patch :)