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by pacohope 2384 days ago
Reading this snippet in the article about leader election in distributed systems: "Each item of data still belongs to a single leader, but the whole system contains many leaders.". It could not be a clearer statement of Conway's law[0]. Orgs ship their org chart. The technical architecture at AWS absolutely reflects the org chart and business organisation of Amazon generally.

[0] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31927/conways-law