[tengstrand]

I would say it's up to you to decide what you think works best, as long as the bases only contain the code needed to expose the public API and then you divide the rest of the code into components. The good thing with Polylith is that it's easy to refactor the code by splitting up existing components. When you add new functionality, you either add to an existing component or create a new one. Polylith allows you to make the components tiny with almost no performance penalties, and that is also our experience, that components tend to be really small, or be divided into many small namespaces.

To answer your second question, I would make the same considerations as in any other architecture. If the SQL only took a user ID and didn't contain business logic from the user domain, then I would just put it in the article component, but if the SQL had to contain logic from the user domain (more than e.g. just translating user name to user ID) then I would extract that logic into the user component. Exactly how you combine this into a query is an implementation detail that can be solved in several different ways (and it often gets quite ugly!). This is how I think about it in general, but there are always situations when it's right to break "rules"!