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Date: "2024-02-29"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-02-29
Recorded episode with Adeel Khan. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: navigating the shift from monolith to microservices without losing velocity
- Adeel described the three-year migration journey at his fintech company, including the critical mistake of trying to decompose too many services at once and the rollback strategy they had to implement mid-migration
- His CTO perspective was valuable — he spoke candidly about the political dynamics of convincing the board to invest in infrastructure work that has no visible product impact for 6+ months
- Excellent episode overall; very tight and focused, finished right at the 50-minute mark with no real dead spots
- Key quote: "Every microservice boundary is a communication boundary. If your org chart doesn't match your service graph, you're going to have a bad time"
- Clean audio on both sides; Adeel had a professional podcast setup with treated room acoustics

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Adeel and ask if he has any internal diagrams we can reference in show notes
- [ ] Draft show notes with the migration timeline as a visual element
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
- [ ] Create social media clips — the Conway's Law angle will resonate with the audience
