I feel that when it comes to making any decision about separating things out, you really do have to consider the size of the team you've got before you commit t

I feel that when it comes to making any decision about separating things out, you really do have to consider the size of the team you've got before you commit to it. If you've got three devs and they all work across all of the microservices, then what on earth do they add except a hell of a lot of overhead? If you had ten teams of seven and they managed two services each... it's easier to see how that architecture could actually help. Same as if you have a two person team building a web-app and they go for client-server architecture rather than a basic full stack web framework. If you're both working the frontend and backend at the same time, save yourself the extra ops effort.