Conceptual Mass and the Compaction Discipline (opens in new tab)

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As I mentioned in a previous post, at Wunderlist, we had a rule: any new service had to be "this big", a constraint I'd demonstrate by holding my fingers a few inches apart. The metric wasn't about lines of code. It was about replaceability.

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We organized around nouns, not verbs. Users, lists, tasks, comments, each owned by exactly one service. Operations were almost entirely CRUD. Communication happ...