> This is a statement about an existing organization and the system they design. It doesn't say you can design a system and then the organization of your choice

> This is a statement about an existing organization and the system they design. It doesn't say you can design a system and then the organization of your choice forms around it. I think both systems and org structure are iterative and evolving. A mismatch between the two will cause friction. Change the org structure and the monolith starts looking like independent services except without the conveniences of microservices (deployment, isolation, independent scaling, etc). Try to change the monolith without changing the org structure and your microservices will eventually turn into tightly coupled RPC hell. Sometimes that friction prompts change in the org, sometimes it prompts change in the code.