Yep, that article is about very similar concepts but grounded in Spring as the framework.

I like what they do around package imports and it looks a lot like what we do at incident.io, with some rules about which packages can import what.

For people in the Ruby world who want a similar solution, Shopify provide an open-source framework called packwerk that is designed just for this:

https://github.com/Shopify/packwerk

Also affectionately called macroservices.

No idea if I stole it some where or came up with the idea when I was falling into slumber after losing a few days to a P0 incident, but I think it describes the N-tier architecture and what I adopt at work quite well.