I think [1] is a good definition of the architectural pattern (outside of networking applications). It’s the one we use within the crossplane community [2] [1]

I think [1] is a good definition of the architectural pattern (outside of networking applications). It’s the one we use within the crossplane community [2] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-overload-in-distributed-systems-by-putting-the-smaller-service-in-control/ https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-overload-in... [2] https://crossplane.io https://crossplane.io