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> Every dev is allowed to spin up their own service. Teams can self organize and self govern around business problems they feel like solving. The best teams are
by akiselev 6y ago
> Every dev is allowed to spin up their own service. Teams can self organize and self govern around business problems they feel like solving. The best teams are the ones that produce the services that product owners rely on the most to get things done.
Can't emphasize this enough. The only way to tackle complexity in tech organizations is by introducing at least one degree of freedom for innovation per employee.
Where would Uber be without three thousand microservices for three thousand engineers?
- di4na 6y agoMaking a profit.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoSays more about the ridiculous profit margins than the software though.
- sokoloff 6y agoI enjoy reading the spectrum of views on Uber, which seem to range from “they’re dumping rides below the cost of providing them” to “they have ridiculous profit margins”.
- di4na 6y agoAnd yet a tons of SF companies never make a dime. Tells a lot about the system right? I recently discovered New Relic has yet to make any profit.
- swyx 6y agofor the more credulous readers in the room I want to point out that the above comment is dripping with sarcasm. took me a while to determine it as well. poe's law is a cruel master
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