On the negative impact of team independence in microservices software development

Microservices allow teams to work in isolation, and reduce the need of communication among the teams. While this aspect could be considered a short-term benefit due to the reduction of the communication effort, the reduced amount of communication could create issues in the general synchronization of the whole project. In this work we start to depict the potential negative impact of the reduced need of communication in the development of microservices-based systems. We propose the design of an empirical study to understand if this reduction is beneficial, and when and how communication between teams should be enforced.