04.2.3 · Skill in Software architecture
System boundaries
Deciding where one component or service ends and another begins.
Boundaries define what each part owns and how parts talk to each other. Good boundaries follow the domain and change rarely. Bad ones, often drawn too early, create constant cross-service coordination.
Resources
2- articleStart hereMonolith first ↗Martin Fowler · 2015 · 6 min
Why most successful systems start as one well-structured application and split only when boundaries are clear.
- articleGo deeperBounded context ↗Martin Fowler · 3 min
The same word can mean different things in different parts of a business; this is how to draw those lines.
Tools
none yetTools for this topic are being researched.