[dgritsko]

I agree. I think organizational scalability is an important benefit of microservices that doesn't always come up in these discussions. Having smaller, more focused services (and repositories) allows your organization to scale up to dozens or hundreds of developers in a way that just wouldn't be practical with a monolithic application, at least in my experience (I'm sure there are exceptions).

[hackerfromthefu]

There are techniques to allow large teams to work on monoliths together. They take planning and discipline, but overall I would say are far more reliable than microservice explosions for similar sized systems, because the earlier you manage the integration the less work it is. ie what you pay at source integration time is less than what you pay dealing with deployments, infrastructure and especially support across distributed systems which can get real expensive real fast.

I've worked on multiple systems with around 50 developers contributing fulltime to them, very practically.