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get faster feedback both from local tools as well as the
CI server.
To evaluate the results, we conducted expert in-
terviews of stakeholders involved in the development
of the system. They are familiar or directly involved
with the modularization effort.
They agree that maintainability for the already
modularized parts has greatly improved. Drastic
changes in scalability are currently not visible but
they agree that in general the smaller services are
much more scalable.
The developers greatly prefer working on smaller
services and are content with the applied approach.
More formal approaches are largely disliked by the
interviewed experts.
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