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by y4mi 2437 days ago
> One of the heavily marketed advantages of using micro-services is the ability for individual sub-systems to scale independently of one another, which is obviously a cost optimization that matters once you reach a certain scale, but is isolating components to dedicated teams the larger advantage?

It's not like this is a new and unknown opinion... It's been repeatedly pointed out for years now.

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Conway's law just names the reasoning behind it ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

For sure, I was just hoping to get some clarification. I'm by no means a micro-service expert.