> And don't fall into the trap of shrinking your micro-services too small.

^ this

I think the naming decision of the concept has been detrimental to its interpretation. In reality, most of the time what we really want is a"one-or-more reasonably-sized systems with well-enough-defined responsibility boundaries".

Perhaps "Service Right-Sizing" would steer people to better decisions. Alas, that "Microservices" objectively sounds sexier.