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biohacker42 on Jan 16, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3 Rules of Database App Aging

Interesting, if these DBs ever growing in complexity are just a representation of an organization's inner workings...

I wonder if you could use an organization's DB to predict when they'll be too big to function.

DLWormwood on Jan 16, 2009 [–]

> Interesting, if these DBs ever growing in complexity are just a representation of an organization's inner workings...

Isn't there a named law based on this?

EDIT: Yup. Found it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law

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