An apt analogy. Many architectures are marketing driven. It scares me exactly how often this is bought into by short sighted people who rank highly and want a week off for training.<p>I&#x27;m currently dealing with a proverbial balls up which is the outcome of an inappropriate application of CQRS and then microservices architecture fads. They have packer, vagrant, ansible, AWS, all sorts of random things half-plugged into a .net solution. Which makes little sense as this is a Microsoft shop who owns their own paid up datacentre estate and it&#x27;s a monolithic project that doesn&#x27;t suit this model nor justify the cost of conversion.<p>Let me clarify fad here: these architectures work well for specific cases like netflix, amazon and other flag waving success stories but not for general cases like standard LOB stuff.