[potta_coffee]

I don't necessarily disagree, but I believe that you have to be very careful about the boundaries between your services. In my experience, it's pretty difficult to separate an API into services arbitrarily before you've built a working system - at least for anything that has more than a trivial amount of complexity. If there's a good formula or rule of thumb for this problem, I'd like to know what it is.

[Nycto]

I agree. From my perspective, microservices shouldn’t be a starting point. They should be something you carve out of a larger application as the need arises.