At a glance, the benefits of microservices seem obvious: independent teams can move faster, deploy more frequently, and scale systems more effectively. In theory, this architecture should unlock agility. But for many teams, that promise hasn’t materialized — not because their systems are flawed, but because their processes haven’t evolved in step.
If your team still relies on heavy coordination for a single microservice change, waits days for staging access, or juggles PRs through slow, serialized pipelines, you may have a distributed system — but you’re still operating like a monolith.