Speeding up

We mentioned earlier in this chapter that developing an application based on microservices is a time-consuming process at the beginning because you are literally starting from scratch. Whether you're starting a new project or splitting an existing legacy application into separate microservices, you have to work on all the necessary steps to bring an application from development to production.

Accelerating the development process

Let's start at the development stage. When you're working on old applications, you usually have to go through the following steps before writing the first line of code:

1. Install the required tools in your local machine.
2. Set up all the required dependencies.
3. Create one or more configuration files.
4. Discover all the missing parts that were not listed as part of the documentation.
5. Load the test data.
6. Run the application.

Now, let's say you're working as part of a team that owns many microservices that are written in different programming languages and that use different...