<ul><li>Fragmentation in microservices environments leads to a patchwork of disconnected environments in the software development lifecycle, causing maintenance overhead and drift from the production environment.</li><li>The tension between complexity, speed, and realism led to the current scattered mess of environments that don't communicate effectively and don't match production, leading to ongoing toil and infrastructure challenges.</li><li>The emergence of tools like Kubernetes and service meshes like Istio and Linkerd enables developers to unify environments, run isolated service versions, and create high-fidelity environments quickly, offering a better path to simplify platform engineering.</li><li>Moving towards a unified, production-like environment shared across development, testing, and validation stages can significantly improve developer satisfaction, reduce infrastructure costs, and accelerate delivery, as seen in organizations like Brex and Signadot.</li></ul>

Why Microservice Environments Break: Lack of Unification

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