Well yes, acquisitions are frequently decided by nontechnical people. That’s where the money comes from. For better or worse, nontechnical people sometimes mak

Well yes, acquisitions are frequently decided by nontechnical people. That’s where the money comes from. For better or worse, nontechnical people sometimes make decisions. One of the jobs of a software architecture is to be robust in accommodating the consequences of them. Monolithic architectures frequently aren’t.