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Cheating Gall's Law

Cheating Gall's Law

How the npm registry rewrite cheated Gall's Law and split a monolith into a set of microservices. Delivered at WebRebels 2015.

C J Silverio

May 22, 2015
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  1. Gall's Law A complex system that works is invariably found

    to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
  2. Gall's Law in full “A complex system that works is

    invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.”
  3. slice off a part of the system into a module

    with a clearly-defined interface
  4. @architectclippy says “I see you have a poorly structured monolith.

    Would you like me to convert it into a poorly structured set of microservices?”