13 Building microservice teams

This chapter covers

  • How a microservice architecture affects your engineering culture and organization
  • Strategies and techniques for building effective microservice teams
  • Common pitfalls in microservice development
  • Governance and best practice in large microservice applications

Throughout this book, we’ve focused on the technical side of microservices: how to design, deploy, and operate services. But it’d be a mistake to examine the technical nature of microservices alone. People implement software, and building great software is as much about effective communication, alignment, and collaboration as implementation choices.

A microservice architecture is great for getting things done. It allows you to build ...

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