It is important to have an overall enterprise reference architecture and a standard set of tools for microservices development to ensure that development is done in a consistent manner. This helps individual microservices teams to adhere to certain best practices. Each team may identify specialized technologies and tools that are suitable for their development. In a polyglot microservices development, there are obviously multiple technologies used by different teams. However, they have to adhere to the arching principles and practices.

For quick wins and to take advantage of timelines, microservices development teams may deviate from these practices in some cases. This is acceptable as long as the teams add refactoring tasks in their backlogs. In many organizations, although the teams make attempts to reuse something from the enterprise, reuse and standardization generally come as an afterthought.

It is important to make sure that the services are catalogued and visible in the enterprise. This improves the reuse opportunities of microservices.