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Engineer Happiness Matters
Insights from Worldwide Software Architecture Summit vol.2
Six months ago, I attended Worldwide Software Architecture Summit (WSAS’22), where many sessions were discussing complexity, especially the complexity of microservices. At that time, I wrote two insights as follows.
The main point is building a microservice architecture is not always the best solution, the complexity of microservice architecture is very high and there are many trade-offs, how to find a relatively good option among many choices is a challenge.
Recently, WSAS’22 was held for the second half of the year, and I also attended.
Among those sessions, Conway’s Law was mentioned several times.
In order to maintain the microservice architecture, the organization structure also needs to be adjusted to properly maintain many services. In the reorganization, how to let engineers do their work more efficiently also became an important issue.
During the three-day session, I came to one conclusion.
The productivity of engineers can only be increased by focusing on the happiness of engineers.
