I think it depends on more than that. A single team managing 10 microservices that actually make sense to be microservices (like the PDF renderer example above

I think it depends on more than that. A single team managing 10 microservices that actually make sense to be microservices (like the PDF renderer example above [1]) is kinda good and perfectly manageable. A team with one single microservice that would actually work better if it was part of a monolith is already in the "creates more problems than it solves" territory. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812294