[randomdata]

What's the common understanding? I've honestly never heard of any other definition. The article shares the same definition, at least.

[mwhitfield]

> the situation where those APIs and team boundaries are exclusively (or at least primarily) composed of separate applications communicating over the network

[randomdata]

Are you, perhaps, not familiar with Conway's Law?

[JAlexoid]

Considering that you've been engaging in strawman arguments this whole thread, I bow out of this discussion.

[randomdata]

It is always curious when someone writes that they are bowing out of a discussion, as if they don't realize that no longer replying conveys the exact same information. Was there an additional takeaway here that I missed?

[JAlexoid]

Conway's law doesn't apply to microservice architecture.

Microservice architecture splits the functionality farther, than Conway's law talks about. When a single team owns 4-5 microservices - that's beyond Conway's law.

[randomdata]

It is people who provide service. If the (micro)service produces 4-5 products as part of the service they provide, that's not beyond Conway's Law at all.