Being working in small team size (5-15 members including PM, BA and testing team), one of my biggest problem is that, in order to meet the delivery schedule, we often have to ‘break’ one or more core principles of microservices. While it works in the end, I can’t help but question where we did go astray from the microservice template, whether the changes are actually a correct solution in our own case and what can we do to improve the system design and implementation process for same set of requirements in the future.