Microservices Aren't About Services

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F0dlOMWGHE Monolith or microservices? You've been in this meeting before. One engineer says "we need to move to microservices or we won't scale." Another one says "we tried microservices at my last company and it was a disaster." Both of them think they're arguing about architecture. They're not. They're arguing about Conway's Law, and neither of them has noticed yet. Here's the one-sentence version of what every balanced treatment of this topic is actually tryin