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2948 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.

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3 questions in Conway's Law.

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A B2B marketplace splits into supplier-onboarding, catalogue, pricing and fulfilment services. Eighteen months later every meaningful feature requires all four teams. What does Conway's Law say happened, and what are the two available fixes?

What happens if an edge platform's configuration system is built by three teams - one owning the config language, one owning global propagation, one owning the edge runtime - and each team ships on its own schedule with its own API? Predict the architectural consequence.

You design service boundaries along domain lines. They cut across three existing teams. What happens and what do you do?