[yellowbeard]

Development environment becomes somewhere between extremely hard and impossible to set up. Resign yourself to running tests locally with staging as the only place to test your services talking to each other. This is my experience at a medium size public company on the bay area.

[joshuahutt]

This is common, but it shouldn't be. If you have setup scripts to run each service, or if they're containerized, it's just a little additional work to get to where you can spin them up with a single command.

[floatrock]

Docker has been a lifesaver in this realm. If you do the work to containerize each service (non-insignificant upfront cost), getting all your services running on a local box is as simple as a `docker-compose up`.