The article the other day from Pieter Hintjens [0] led to this intro written by him. Seems like it would pair well with domain-driven design [1], but it's a very different paradigm from what is commonly seen in industry (by me at least).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design