Autonomous teams is a popular idea in the industry today that tends to be associated with microservices. Autonomous teams fully own their services and are trusted to make their own decisions. The idea is that this will make them more motivated and productive. I fully support this idea. There are many other factors that drive microservices adoption such as scalability, performance, fault tolerance and the architecture of cloud infrastructure (i.e. the emergence of serverless functions etc.). However, multiple challenges arise when a team goes from owning a handful of services to owning dozens. Unfortunately I believe that when a team splits up its services on a micro scale it is setting itself up for a heavy maintenance burden.
