The important part here, that the parent addressed, is the statement "small team", as an organizational structure distinct from, say, a "large team" which has t

The important part here, that the parent addressed, is the statement "small team", as an organizational structure distinct from, say, a "large team" which has the opportunity to experience Conway's law. It sounds like Segment very much prematurely optimized. Microservices is probably not a great approach below 20 developers, and becomes necessary past 100, at least in my experience.