IDG Contributor Network: How much freedom should be given to microservice teams?

Pre-microservices: complete centralization
Until recently, IT was inherently a centralized function within an enterprise. Taking an application to production was an enormously expensive and lengthy process, requiring support from dozens of teams, millions in capital expenditures, and many months or even years of time. This led to CIOs standardizing on specific software and hardware products, multi-year vendor contracts, extended negotiations with vendors, centralized architecture review boards,