Personal todo lists don’t depend on others using the same system (no network effects) and it doesn’t matter to most people if your old todos aren’t there (low switching costs). It’s a tough business

Architecture lock-in : You may also be locked into a specific kind of architecture. For example. when you use Kubernetes extensively, you are likely building small-ish services that expose APIs and can be deployed as containers. If you want to migrate to a serverless architecture, you'll want to change the granularity of your services closer to si

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When exploring possible decomposition options, resolve to the principles behind what the bounded context pattern is based on: Why is it better to design problem-oriented models instead of a single model for all use cases? Because “all-in-one” solutions are rarely effective for anything. Why can’t a bounded context host conflicting models? Because o

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My friend Kasey Klimes wrote a fantastic piece called “

When to Design for Emergence

” on the design dynamics of large-scale software after working on Google Maps.

https://newsletter.rhizomerd.com/p/when-to-design-for-emergence

He points out that our current approach is designed to only solve the most common needs of the most number of users.

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