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On the negative impact of team independence in microservices software development

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Valentina Lenarduzzi and

Outi Sievi-KorteAuthors Info & Claims

XP '18: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development: Companion

May 2018

Article No.: 22, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3234152.3234191

Published: 21 May 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Microservices allow teams to work in isolation, and reduce the need of communication among the teams. While this aspect could be considered a short-term benefit due to the reduction of the communication effort, the reduced amount of communication could create issues in the general synchronization of the whole project. In this work we start to depict the potential negative impact of the reduced need of communication in the development of microservices-based systems. We propose the design of an empirical study to understand if this reduction is beneficial, and when and how communication between teams should be enforced.

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XP '18: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development: Companion

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DOI:10.1145/3234152

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