[nyrikki]

To add to this,

The concept of connascence, and not coupling is what I find more useful for trade off analysis.

Synchronous connascence means that you only have a single architectural quanta under Neil Ford’s terminology.

As Ford is less religious and more respectful of real world trade offs, I find his writings more useful for real world problems.

I encourage people to check his books out and see if it is useful. It was always hard to mention connascence as it has a reputation of being ivory tower architect jargon, but in a distributed system world it is very pragmatic.