Building and testing microservices should be much faster than performing similar operations on big, monolithic applications. But in order to achieve agile development, this building and testing would need to be performed much more often.
While it may be sensible to deploy the application manually when you are dealing with a monolith, the same approach will lead to a lot of problems if applied to microservices.
In order to embrace the microservices in your development, you have to ensure that your team has a DevOps mindset and understands the requirements of both building and running the microservice. It's not enough to simply hand the code to someone else and forget about it.
The DevOps mindset will help your team to automate as much as possible. Developing microservices without a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline is probably one of the worst possible ideas in software architecture. Such an approach will bring all the...
