IDG Contributor Network: Why adopting microservices is easy in theory, but not reality

Enterprise CTOs have microservices on the mind. After relying for years on monolithic stacks, these IT leaders are trading in their old architectures for independently deployable systems and granular, lightweight services.Speed and agility are what these CTOs are after, and microservices can deliver—phenomenally, in fact. Microservices can empower companies to leave behind large, slow-moving teams and complex deployments, and to shift to agile, independent teams delivering on their own cad