[falcolas]

> it was becoming incrementally larger and more complicated for new team members. Because of this, the monolithic Django system was already proving a headache to get quickly set up, running and understood by our new hires.

So, now you have thirty smaller services for each new hire to install and link together? I can all but guarantee that this particular problem is better solved with Vagrant and some orchestration scripts. Takes your install from a list of packages to a single "vagrant up" command.