Its a question of how much they need to talk together. My current company has a code base which, if we want to avoid falling into technical bankruptcy, teams w

Its a question of how much they need to talk together. My current company has a code base which, if we want to avoid falling into technical bankruptcy, teams will need to spend 35 hours per week talking to other teams. The goal of well-defined interfaces is to reduce that to 2-5 hours per week. Saying “microservices” is a concise yet oversimplified way to describe what is actually needed: well-defined modules with clearly-visible boundaries.