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Conway's Law Bites Small Teams Too: Architecture Mirrors 2-Person Startup
Conway's Law states that software architecture mirrors team communication structures. In a two-person team at bundle.social, this leads to 'hero services' owned by one person, creating bus-factor risks. The team fights this by enforcing strict code boundaries and a pragmatic monolith, not microservices.
Meridian48 take
The piece is a practical reminder that Conway's Law applies at any scale, but its advice to enforce boundaries even in small teams is sound—though the 'pragmatic monolith' approach is hardly novel.
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