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by whilenot-dev 220 days ago
Tell this to a company of 4 engineers that created a system with 40 microservices, deployed as one VM image, to be running on 1 machine.
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They wouldn't have time to hear it because they'd be trying to fix their local dev environment.

I worked for a company that had done pretty much that - not fun at all (for extra fun half the microservices where in a language only half the dev team had even passing familiarity with).

You need someone in charge with "taste" enough to not allow that to happen or it can happen.

LOL, perhaps the communication structure there was "silent, internalised turmoil".
Probably =), or Conway's law was always about the lower ends of the communication nodes in a company graph. I think it's time we also always include the upper ends of our cognitive limits of multitasking when we design systems in relation to organization structures.