I was chatting with a VP of engineering last week who made an observation that stuck with me: “When we had five microservices, testing was actually easier than our old monolith. At 50 services, it’s become our biggest bottleneck.”
This isn’t uncommon. Most teams experience a honeymoon period with microservices where testing feels manageable, even elegant. Then something shifts. What was once a competitive advantage becomes a drag on velocity. The question is: Why does microservices testing difficulty seem to grow exponentially, rather…