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Yes, the tooling is weak. Now, let's convince the engineering managers to spend a bunch of time building tooling to start everything together and fix service discovery on localhost. Turns out, they'd rather build features.

I'm with you 100%. It drives me crazy, but right now you cannot run multiple services locally without a bunch of fiddling.

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It's not impossible. As a sibling comment says, it usually just requires a bunch of ad-hoc scripts to make sure everything is running. This does get increasingly complex, especially as microservices are written with different stacks, but that's part of the tradeoff.

In my own projects you can start up every microservice with a single command / script.

Yes, having sufficient tooling for microservices does consume resources.

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