I'd argue it's just the word micro. People draw the boundries out in very odd places when they're following microservices like a religion, but here's an exampl

I'd argue it's just the word micro. People draw the boundries out in very odd places when they're following microservices like a religion, but here's an example where it might not suck. Pull out the auth service. Should a startup with a single app do this? Probably not. But as soon as your big enough that someones yelling at you to power multiple services and you have compliance requirements that requires you solve protective monitoring, you probably have a project for a small team of experts, a reason to run this indepedently, and a stable enough API that you can do it well. Alternatively you could pay Okta & co in blood. :)