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Microservices and Team Setup - Is not only about code

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Solutions that are based on microservices architecture become a commodity. Teams are not afraid anymore when they found out that the next projects is based on micro-service architecture.
The transition from messaging base architecture to microservices architectures was very useful for team to understand the main concept and how a solution should look like. 

Trigger
Working with different frameworks or tools specific to microservices will make the team curious and happy at the beginning. Most of the people are happy when they have team allocated to learn new stuff. But after this phase, I identify that there is usually a collapse. In the first moment when we are ready to start 'production' code, people starts to have hiccups and each of them have problems when they need to make a deploy, run their code in containers and so on.

Cause
It is easily to forgot or to ignore that microservices is not only at service/code level. It is also at infrastructure level. There is a lot of scripting and automation that needs to be done to be have a success story. 
Even testing your own code is not so easy anymore. You microservice will need to run in a sandbox or you need also the services around you own service to be able to do the integration tests. 

Effect
Most of the team members are fighting with deployments, where the service should run, how to setup environments, trying to write some deployments scrips and so on. There focus is not anymore on writing the business logic that shall run in the services themselves, but on the infrastructure part. They happens usually in a disorganized way, each person is looking for the same stuff, looking in the right place and many more. 

Key People
In such teams, there is a high need of DevOps and people that need to think and prepare environment and how deployments will work before the development team start they job. 

Solution
From the 0 day of the projects, you shall be aware that configuration and infrastructure part of such solution will be different from the other type of applications. You'll need people allocated on this part, that should support the team when they had problems. 
The need of a scrips that allow development team to create the environment that they need is high and can be a time-saver.

Conclusion
In any projects, you shall never forget or neglect this kind of things. 
Sharing is everything, but also specialization is important. Each member shall focus on the thing that they are the champions and you need champions for each item.


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