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The architectural approaches described in this book, including Adaptive Granularity Governance: The Khan Microservice Pattern (formerly the Adaptive Granularity Strategy), the Service Decomposition Workflow, and the Microservices Maturity Assessment (KM3), are original methodologies by the author, Vaquar Khan, based on professional experience. Please cite them when you reuse or discuss them. See LICENSING.md, NAMING.md, and CITATIONS.md.

Copyright in the book text, diagrams, and written expression of these methodologies is held by Vaquar Khan (2017-2026). Source code in this repository is under the MIT License. Book prose and figures are under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Details: LICENSING.md.

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