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That actually sounds about right from my perspective (and experience). Out of curiosity, why do you think that is a lot?

I would go a bit further and say most companies should only proceed with a microservice architecture if they have sufficient scale and automation such that decomposing their architecture will result in at least a high double digit number of discrete services.

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I think I was reading microservices but I was imagining services and that's why it seemed like a lot. I guess it depends on the granularity of the decomposition.

I agree, scale and automation are two important factors when decomposing architectures. I think it would be really valuable if systems could decompose themselves to some degree, based on scale and other factors, without much of an operator's intervention.

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