The only modern design book that seems to be universally acclaimed is designing data intensive applications. I enjoyed it and I don't remember it being too much

The only modern design book that seems to be universally acclaimed is designing data intensive applications. I enjoyed it and I don't remember it being too much along those lines. Martin fowlers writings were reasonably balanced on that kind of stuff although I think he was an early advocate of service bus. Our business seems to be reversing in terms of the drive for microservices and being more tolerant of medium sized systems.