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It's the Boundary, Stupid!

Large software failures occur less inside components than where data, time, trust, and organizational boundaries are crossed implicitly.

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It's the Boundary, Stupid!
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See how caller, data, trust, time, scale, and organizational boundaries shape software design.

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