The way to do this wrong (by forcing the use of the "blessed" client or common platform dependencies, instead of leaving it open to the consumer as you suggest)

The way to do this wrong (by forcing the use of the "blessed" client or common platform dependencies, instead of leaving it open to the consumer as you suggest) is discussed in this talk: https://www.microservices.com/talks/dont-build-a-distributed-monolith/ https://www.microservices.com/talks/dont-build-a-distributed...