I've been building distributed systems, big ones, across banking and gaming for many years now. The only thing that makes it successful is correct data modelin

I've been building distributed systems, big ones, across banking and gaming for many years now. The only thing that makes it successful is correct data modeling and application boundaries. Domain driven design is a great way to start and cqrs a good next step. Trying to make a poorly built application distributed is like trying to make a poorly built class testable. You can kind of do it, but it's a lot of extra messing around and it never really works properly.