Pulling an Inverse Conway Maneuver at Netflix (2023)
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The article discusses Netflix's 'Inverse Conway Maneuver' to unify their observability platform, and commenters discuss the effectiveness and implications of this approach.
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That is, did the "inverse Conway" actually result in getting the unified observability platform shipped, and that platform actually solving the problem they initially were trying to solve? It certainly seems plausible that it COULD, but quite surprising that that's not actually stated in the article if so...