If this is too long, tldr: Google Conway’s Law wath yt video and think
There is a popular rule in software development called Conway's Law. It says that organizations design systems that mirror the way people inside those organizations communicate. In simpler terms: Your architecture will eventually look like your team structure. Big company with separate frontend, backend, data, DevOps, and platform teams?
You will probably end up with separate services, separate processes, separate ownership, and a lot of API calls between people who sit in different Slack channels. But what happens when the entire company is just two people? That is where things get interesting.
At bundle.social, we are running a unified social media API that handles a lot of edge cases. And there are two of us. There is no dedicated platform team No analytics department No infrastructure group. No product manager translating customer feedback into Jira tickets. Just two people are trying to keep a fairly large system moving without turning it into a pile of slop services nobody fully understands. You would think Conway's Law does not really apply to such a small team. It absolutely does. It just shows up differently.
