> Take some ordinary, off-the-shelf servers. Treat them as dumb, untrusted pipes.

Sounds like REST. The original REST, not the botched CRUD that companies pushed for.

https://roy.gbiv.com/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation...

> The combination of layered system and uniform interface constraints induces architectural properties similar to those of the uniform pipe-and-filter style.

See also Figure 5-8.

The dissertation is all about deriving that network style.