Developing a number of smaller microservices sounds easy, but the challenges often faced while developing them are as follows.
- Automate the Components: Difficult to automate because there are a number of smaller components. So for each component, we have to follow the stages of Build, Deploy and, Monitor.
- Perceptibility: Maintaining a large number of components together becomes difficult to deploy, maintain, monitor and identify problems. It requires great perceptibility around all the components.
- Configuration Management: Maintaining the configurations for the components across the various environments becomes tough sometimes.
- Debugging: Difficult to find out each and every service for an error. It is essential to maintain centralized logging and dashboards to debug problems.