The Problem: We Were Flying Blind At Refer , we're on a mission to enable talented individuals to fulfill their professional potential by helping them pursue their ideal job. Behind the scenes, that means a lot of microservices, and recently we decided to consolidate everything into a mono-repository. If you've ever migrated dozens of microservices into a monorepo, you know the drill: contracts between services need to be explicit, testing needs to be fast, and the dev experience has to be smooth enough that nobody reaches for git blame to figure out who broke what (that's a story for another post). As part of this process, I started using MiniStack to emulate AWS services locally. The idea was simple: instead of deploying to AWS every time we wanted to test an integration (which costs time and money), we'd run everything locally. It worked great. Until it didn't.…