I work on a monolith with a team experimenting in microservices and good lord do I hate it. The microservice represents a required step in our user flow, and du

I work on a monolith with a team experimenting in microservices and good lord do I hate it. The microservice represents a required step in our user flow, and due to the way we're set up I have to spin up my own private copy. Very often there have been configuration or API changes that were not communicated to me and so for the past few months that service have been broken and I've managed to avoid it for the most part. When I can't, I find it is faster to simply re-assign existing database records or simply bullshit them in a database editor rather than deal with the "why isn't the XXXXXXXXXXXX service working for me again?" flavor of the day And holy fuck is debugging that stuff difficult. HUUUUUGE waste of time, but management looooooooooves their blasted microservices...