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Your code base should reflect the organization of people working on it. Virtually all technical merits are outweighed by that.

• jstimpfle 5y ago
  Or should the organization of people reflect the code they're working on? :-)
  • bdcravens 5y ago
    People are expensive, code is cheap.
    • jstimpfle 5y ago
      That could be an argument for what I said.
• geoffjentry 5y ago
  This is Conway's Law. It is why the Reverse Conway is preached. Define your desired architecture, and fit your organization to fit it. At that point your code base will reflect the organization of people working on it, and the output will reflect the desired architecture.
  • asimpletune 5y ago
    Exactly! I avoided naming it in my comment, but that’s how I came to learn this as well.