[not_kurt_godel]

> The benefits of microservices are arguably only apparent when you have an ample team (or teams!) of competent full-time devs.

I would very much agree with that. Although I'm not against microservices, they are by no means a quick or efficient way to get things done. Hedging against future theoretical scaling concerns comes at a high cost - a cost that's very much worth it if true scale is achieved, but a high cost nonetheless.