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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noir_lord a day ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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omnicognate a day ago | parent | prev [-]

LOL, perhaps the communication structure there was "silent, internalised turmoil".

	▲	whilenot-dev a day ago \| parent [-]
		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.