It is very easy with microservices to create something that nobody can figure out how to start everything needed for a full system test on their development machine. This is one of the downsides of microservices and if you use them you should be mitigating this somehow. (I don't work in a microservices environment and I can think of a dozen options - I'm sure someone who does can think of more as well as tell me why some of my ideas don't work)
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It is very easy with microservices to create something that nobody can figure out how to start everything needed for a full system test on their development machine. This is one of the downsides of microservices and if you use them you should be mitigating this somehow. (I don't work in a microservices environment and I can think of a dozen options - I'm sure someone who does can think of more as well as tell me why some of my ideas don't work)
^^ this right here, I want to quote this in my next blog post :)