I don't think microservices are as common as often suggested. In my experience with small and medium sized companies, if they go SoA, its typically just "servic

I don't think microservices are as common as often suggested. In my experience with small and medium sized companies, if they go SoA, its typically just "services", almost always sharing the same DB, and pretty much never "microservices". Usually it's something like: a service for the webapp, maybe an api service, a couple services for something like a job queue or sockets, possibly with the a service for compute bound tasks like media processing or reports. I've also worked at places with 50+ services working together in production, but they're rare (at small and medium sized companies).