Regardless, I meant the idea of moving everything to a communication of events between subsystems. To be fair, the sibling read me correctly and stated that if you just ignore the distributed nature of events, then things aren't that hard.
However, it is easy to follow the lure of "I'll go ahead and make this work for the distributed case" from the beginning. This is for two reasons. First, why not? :) Second, it is seen as something that would be very hard to add in later.
So, I can't disagree that it is an anti-pattern or unrelated. However... I would be surprised if the next version of this article didn't go over the distributed nature. Indeed, it already covers how this more correctly mirrors the distributed nature of the organization.
