Finding OmNomNom's service boundaries
Walking OmNomNom through the questions from the previous post and landing on five boundaries that are nothing like Product, Order, Customer, and Payment.
#service-boundaries
Finding service boundaries is not a naming exercise
Service boundaries are not named into existence. They are discovered by asking who actually gets to decide, what handoffs exist, and where authority quietly leaks.
Service boundaries are about authority
Service boundaries are not about data shape or workflow. They are about authority, and most diagrams skip the part that matters.