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• software_engineering
• global_infrastructure created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Microservices solve organizational rather than technical problems

Distributed architectures exist primarily to allow massive engineering teams to deploy independently without stepping on toes. Scaling organizations reveals that Comparative governance reveals system bottlenecks.¹

Footnotes

1. Conway, M. E. (1968). How do committees invent? ↩