As long as you also took "so keep the system simple and basic" to heart as well - I have seen many systems where the obvious choice was microservices, not for s

As long as you also took "so keep the system simple and basic" to heart as well - I have seen many systems where the obvious choice was microservices, not for scaling or team separation mind you, but because the devs felt like it. Scaling those systems is a total bitch.