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Ownership and Conway's law

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Ownership and Conway's law

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- [Instructor] In prior videos we reviewed the various technological challenges and trade offs associated with implementing a microservices architecture. But there's another category of issues that can make or break the readiness of an organization in implementing microservices. Organizational issues. That is the focus of this section. Conway's Law states that any organization that designs a system, defined more broadly here than just information systems, will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. What does this mean for microservices? Ultimately it means that in order to keep communication efforts and the cost of change low it makes sense to assign ownership of a service to a single co located team. But what does service ownership entail? Simply put the team that owns a service is responsible for making changes to that service. Change extends to all aspects of a service. From requirements gathering, to building, deploying…

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