I believe they are grasping in the right direction, but what they really need to do is let go of the attachment to object oriented development. I don't mean to start the flame war, but if you insist that the architecture reflects the intent of the application, then why choose OO? If the architecture requires messages and buses and adapters, etc. what does OO bring to the table? Why do I think I need distributed objects? Am I choosing micro-services just because I want to try to get distributed objects working again?
It's not a language issue either. At this level we are talking about frameworks, models, domains, contracts, protocols, etc. This layer is not language dependent, although some languages are better designed to build frameworks that support these intents.
A classic example of how these assumptions creep into your designs is seen in the first chapter of Head First Design Patterns where they discuss at length how to create the perfect object model for a duck computer game. When I read that the first first think that came to my mind was, "Wait a minute, you are designing a computer game! Everything on the screen is a sprite. Sprites are moved around the screen by their coordinates once per game loop. How does the perfect duck object model help me here?"
Sounds very much like a hammer looking for a nail to me.
It's not a language issue either. At this level we are talking about frameworks, models, domains, contracts, protocols, etc. This layer is not language dependent, although some languages are better designed to build frameworks that support these intents.
A classic example of how these assumptions creep into your designs is seen in the first chapter of Head First Design Patterns where they discuss at length how to create the perfect object model for a duck computer game. When I read that the first first think that came to my mind was, "Wait a minute, you are designing a computer game! Everything on the screen is a sprite. Sprites are moved around the screen by their coordinates once per game loop. How does the perfect duck object model help me here?"
Sounds very much like a hammer looking for a nail to me.
[edit] fixed a few typos