When Distribution Becomes a Substitute for Design...

A lot of modern software architecture—microservices, event-driven systems, CQRS—is not born from deeply understanding the domain. It is what teams reach for when the existing application has become a mess: nobody really knows what’s happening where anymore, behavior is unpredictable, and making changes feels risky and expensive. Instead of asking “What does this concept actually mean and where does it truly belong?”, they ask “How do we split this?” That is where a lot of modern architecture beg