This is pretty much how we started with microservices in our company, way before microservices became a thing :) We had a monolith for our document collaboratio

This is pretty much how we started with microservices in our company, way before microservices became a thing :) We had a monolith for our document collaboration startup and there were parts of it that needed to scale, like a compare (diff) functionality. So we encapsulated this functionality into his own service.