Flow, microservices and scale｜

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Recent research connects biological scaling laws to software orgs: metabolic rate follows a 3/4 exponent, public companies’ revenue scales ~0.85 per doubling, yet Amazon shows superlinear ~1.15 growth after imposing constraints like two‑pizza teams and externalized interfaces. Empirical signals from Accelerate — mean time to recovery cycle time change‑failure rate and deploy frequency predict organizational health; practices that remove queues (no change‑request boards) and create small‑world team networks produce faster delivery. A playful calculation says Godzilla needs ~20 m legs, a 100‑ton heart, 2M L blood and beats ~2/min.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:30Flow, microservices and scale
3. 8:34non-linear dynamics and complex adaptive systems
4. 19:36corporate metabolism
5. 28:06identifying the signs of ageing
6. 30:32corporate mortality
7. 42:49How wide do Godzilla's legs need to be?

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