In general, staging environments are the solution to cross service testing for Microservices. The expectation that a Microservice must be testable end to end lo

In general, staging environments are the solution to cross service testing for Microservices. The expectation that a Microservice must be testable end to end locally is not one I would like to encourage. The whole point of splitting out a service this way is that individual services have very narrowly scoped, independent function and can be tested on their own, perhaps with mocked data. One wouldn’t expect to run all of a companys entire pipeline locally on a single laptop. Expecting that for Microservices is similar.