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LEONARDO PALMEIRO
LEONARDO PALMEIRO

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Conway’s Law is quietly shaping your architecture

💡 Conway’s Law is quietly shaping your architecture
“Organizations design systems that mirror their communication structures.”
That’s Conway’s Law and once you see it, you can’t unsee it in software.
Monoliths, microservices, tangled dependencies… very often they’re not technical problems, they’re team structure problems.
How we talk, collaborate, and make decisions gets compiled straight into our code.
If you want better software, don’t start with frameworks start with how your teams are organized.
Worth a read (and a rethink):

👉 https://lnkd.in/ebJBK6dK

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