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The "four pacemakers" where "every one of these workflows was separate from the other workflows" could be read like an argument for microservices, doesn't it? I assume it's harder to make software as independent as say windows and floors, but I find it interesting to think about.

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It’s more generally an argument for modularization, and for establishing well-defined interfaces between modules. Microservices is just one way this may get manifested.

A seminal paper is On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules by David Parnas.