Built around business capabilities and independently deployable
Conway’s Law: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
Services organized around business capability
A team should own a product over its full lifetime “you build, you run it”.
Applications built from microservices aim to be as decoupled and as cohesive as possible
Applications need to be designed so that they can tolerate the failure of services