Comment by happymellon

> but I've seen a couple cases where the bus number for a module wanted a solution with fewer consequences but the group wisdom wanted something flashier but also more brittle.

Only a couple? This is some peoples entire job, we can refer to them as "enterprise architecture".

Lived experience is a decade ago, and you once saw Kafka solve someone's queuing problem so now everyone's api interface has to run over Kafka. Even synchronous ones.