The text discusses how technology and infrastructure changes can impact software architecture beyond just technical aspects. It highlights the growing adoption of Apache Kafka as an event streaming platform, enabling companies to build scalable systems with microservices exchanging inputs and outputs in real-time through Kafka topics. The author shares examples from Ticketmaster's transition to an event streaming architecture using Kafka and how it has helped them manage complexities in their system. Additionally, the text mentions that Kafka not only helps build scalable systems but also transforms the way architects think about those systems, moving away from large monolithic programs to evolvable services maintaining their own state and communicating through scalable logs.