The main thing this article demonstrates is that you shouldn't go into microservices without knowing the lessons learned at places that have been doing it for y

The main thing this article demonstrates is that you shouldn't go into microservices without knowing the lessons learned at places that have been doing it for years. Or without knowing why you want microservices. For us it was a subset of "Production-Ready Microservices" by Susan Fowler. (It was so comprehensive we didn't need all of the things the book suggests you implement).