Teams, Ownership & Conway’s Law
Architecture and org charts shape each other. Lesson 13 of Level 9: Microservices. Based on Building Microservices, DDD, Software Architecture and DDIA.
Level 9 · Microservices · Lesson 13 of 13
Architecture and org charts shape each other.
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All lessons in Microservices
- Why Microservices Exist — and When Not to Use Them
- Finding Service Boundaries & Splitting the Monolith
- Database per Service & Data Ownership
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication
- API Gateways, BFFs & Service Discovery
- Timeouts, Retries & Retry Storms
- Circuit Breakers & Bulkheads
- Idempotency: Making Retries Safe
- Distributed Transactions: 2PC, Sagas & the Outbox
- Observability: Logs, Metrics, Traces & SLOs
- Deployment: Containers, Kubernetes, Canary & Feature Flags
- Testing Microservices & Consumer-Driven Contracts
- Teams, Ownership & Conway’s Law