Dustin Bennett

I don't think Conway or Reverse Conway is best. I start with the domain and the people whose problems we need to solve. Both the architecture of the software and of the organization emerge from the domain. Teams form themselves around domain problems. An architecture that makes it easy to solve those problems emerges from that. The answer to "which came first?" is "yes."

In the things-people-don't-think-about department: Microservice systems have large attack surfaces. A single microservice is a network service, like any other, and needs to be secured against intrusion, like any other. 1/2

"When will it be done" is a question that you can answer only if you know what "it" is. If you learn as you work, and the things you learn change what "it" is, then that number is a moving target, impossible to predict with accuracy.

Managment always seems to define progress as adding more code. Often, you can make the most progress by removing it.