Don’t Forget Conway’s Law

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Conway’s Law drives the move from a monolith to microservices: a historical Amazon binary of 300–500 MB that takes 8–12 hour compiles forces organizational change, so leadership issues a two‑pizza teams rule and breaks the front page into few hundred microservices. A recommended path uses a small tiger team to extract single services, requires explicit API contracts and HTTP tooling like API gateways and NGINX, and succeeds only if teams adopt autonomy, accountability and public learning.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:17Conways Law
3. 3:36Agile Teams

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