Jeff Bezos's 'Two-Pizza Team' Mandate
Jeff Bezos issued an internal mandate requiring all Amazon teams to expose their functionality through service interfaces, readable by other teams, forming small, autonomous 'two-pizza teams.'
Significance
This mandate fundamentally shifted Amazon's internal architecture from monolithic applications to a service-oriented approach, inadvertently laying the organizational and technical foundation for AWS and its subsequent externalization of infrastructure.
Key facts
- Year
- 2002
- Type
- milestone
- Location
- Amazon.com, Seattle, WA