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Isn't the point that there is a line somewhere that one app stops being one single app and becomes "eco system" - and you stop having deterministic understandin
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
Isn't the point that there is a line somewhere that one app stops being one single app and becomes "eco system" - and you stop having deterministic understanding and start having "town planning" and "social expectations".
I mean my use of bad metaphors kind of underlines the point we don't really understand his problem - but the large organisation that builds these is itself an example of such impossible to understand interactions - maybe we will learn from Azure etc and take those learnings into taking our own orgs.
- throwawaaarrgh 4y agoWell anything designed as SOA is just Conway's Law enshrined in architecture. Most older software was too. The org is the problem. The super bizarre outlier is the Open Source community, which doesn't really follow any organizational plan (except the corporate projects and foundations and committees that pretend they're open source). For whatever reason, Open Source succeeds despite no hierarchy, no clearly defined architecture, no particular strategy. But then again, maybe that's why it works so well. An organization has a fixed structure, rules, priorities. It can fail, lose its intellectual property, its funding, be competed against. Open Source has no such limits. It's the wild west. Do whatever you want, whenever you want, and whatever works, survives. Lke natural evolution. An organic ecosystem, rather than a plastic one.