What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of planning micro-service based projects involving multiple teams?**
What is this question trying to address or looking as a response ?
You can classify the challenges into Technical and Organizational .
Technical challenge are :
- Moving to the micro service architecture while still keeping the lights on on the existing system.
- Ramping up your team in kubernetes etc , with one service now exploding to 12 it is harder to do deployments without CI CD
- One question teams struggle with is if the micro service should have its own database or should all micro service share the same . Typically they will go with a hybrid mode , using it where it makes sense.
- Logging and monitoring changes quite a bit , with introduction of kubernetes your logs stay on the container only for as long as the container is active , therefore we need to move it out into something like splunk and data’dog kind of systems .
Organizational
- Now that you have built a new interface, getting on the timelines of all teams that depend on you to migrate . Essentially if there is no business value it becomes a much harder sell .
- Once you build micro services there is always the question of who should own what and if the teams are sufficiently staffed to handle it.