Hacking Conway's Law
- 1. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES CENTER Raffi Krikorian @raffi HACKING CONWAY’S LAW
- 2. Speed
- 3. This code looks like crap! Engineering
- 4. We can’t ship things fast enough! ‘Velocity’ is down! Management
- 6. Advanced Technologies Center Mapping Safety Autonomy
- 7. We're programmers. Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We're not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds. FOG CREEK SOFTWARE / STACK EXCHANGE NETWORK Joel Spolsky
- 8. T-Bird T-Flock + Haplo Flock(s) Gizmoduck Monorail STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING Monorail MySQL
- 10. Single codebase All computational logic are in-memory Easy to scale horizontally Handled by a central operations team STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING Monorail MySQL Many smaller, clearly scoped services Single responsibility principle Independently managed Clear ownership for each service STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING Redis Memcache Flock T-Bird MySQLTweet User Timeline Social Graph DMs API Web Monorail TFE
- 21. Many smaller, clearly scoped services Single responsibility principle Independently managed Clear ownership for each service STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING Redis Memcache Flock T-Bird MySQLTweet User Timeline Social Graph DMs API Web Monorail TFE
- 22. Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. Melvin Conway
- 23. If you have four developers writing a compiler you will get a four-pass compiler. Eric Raymond
- 24. Setting up the team says more about architecture than the architecture itself. Me
- 32. Single codebase All computational logic are in-memory Easy to scale horizontally Handled by a central operations team STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING Monorail MySQL Many smaller, clearly scoped services Single responsibility principle Independently managed Clear ownership for each service STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING Redis Memcache Flock T-Bird MySQLTweet User Timeline Social Graph DMs API Web Monorail TFE Team
- 33. Many smaller, clearly scoped services Single responsibility principle Independently managed Clear ownership for each service STORAGE & RETRIEVAL LOGICPRESENTATIONROUTING Redis Memcache Flock T-Bird MySQLTweet User Timeline Social Graph DMs API Web Monorail TFE teams team
- 34. Ways must be found to reward design managers for keeping their organizations lean and flexible. There is need for a philosophy of system design management which is not based on the assumption that adding manpower simply adds to productivity. Melvin Conway
- 35. To solve technical problems, you often have to go outside the technical domain. Me
- 36. 0. It’s not all about the code! 1. Small teams can do big things. 2. Full stack teams keeps your architecture flexible. 3. Don’t fight Conway’s Law, work with it. Me