Lyft engineering finished their decomposition of a monolith into a collection of microservices back in 2018. Modular development environments using Docker containers eventually moved to the cloud. Recent articles describe how their development tooling struggled to keep up as time passed and the number of microservices exploded. Development environments had to return to the engineer’s machine.
The original plan was to build a Docker-based container orchestration environment that engineers could use for testing. It would use multi-tenant environments to its advantage on production, becoming cheaper and faster to scale than the previous solution.
