[yoshida]

I don't think this is OT at all. I know those articles and if even Martin Fowler says starting with a monolithic app is not too bad for most problems one should think twice before splitting up everything in tiny pieces.

At the end one needs to re-learn a lot. And due to this I think it is especially challenging doing microservices with technologies that power the average web app (Rails, Django, etc). Maybe it will help to choose a technology stack that emphasizes the values of microservices more (thinking of Clojure or Erlang).