Of Ducks, Types, and Identity

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A Duck, Typing

In 1967 computer scientist Melvin Conway made an observation that came to be known as Conway’s Law.

Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

Conway’s Law is why you often find rigid, silo’ed tables modeled into the data architecture of rigid companies with silo’ed business departments, or scrambled and unplanned relationships across software entities at bootstrap startups; code reflects the human environment in which it is developed.

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Of Ducks, Types, and Identity