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Gradle, NPM, Lein, Maven, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Grunt …​ The list goes on (and on, and on). Developer tooling, constantly re-invented for the modern age.

Microservices projects put particular pressures on development teams , even without polyglot, you end up adding in a fair amount of automation tooling (Docker anyone?) that is patchily integrated into the core developer tooling. Every time you add in docker support to gradle or grunt, the more locked you are to that language, making moving away that much harder.