Some random internet wisdom

Bezos Mandate

In 2002 Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, sent a memo to the the company. The contents of the memo was as follows:

  * All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through
  service interfaces.
  * Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
  * There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed:
  no direct linking, no direct reads of another team’s data store, no
  shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed
  is via service interface calls over the network.
  * It doesn’t matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom
  protocols — doesn’t matter.
  * All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground
  up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be
  able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
  * Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired.

Thank you;
have a nice day!

conway's law:

"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

— M. Conway