Organization of Layered Software?

A while back I found a couple of great articles here about changing the way software is layered, such that your code was less coupled; to do with the way operations were propagated through.

I'm trying to find this and my usual google skills are failing me.

There was a very good article that gave an example of some operations that went through the normal layers of UI, business, persistence (as I remember it) but was modified so that the layers were oriented differently and I think that meant functionality could be composed in a better way.

Can anyone help?

edit: just remembered - in the article I read it showed a diagram of the layers but with operations in a kind of tree and leaf way, and showing how this was modified, and the advantages of re-organizing in this way. I think the article may have been something to do with functional core/imperative shell but I'm not 100%.