Microservices

What is a Monolith ?

Monolith & Its downsides

Monolith:

• Before microservices, a monolithic architecture was the standard
• All components are part of single unit
• In 1 codebase
• Everthing is developed, deployed and scaled as 1 unit
• App must be written with 1 tech stack
• Teams need to be careful to not affect each other’s work
• 1 single artifact, so you must redeploy the entire application on each update
• Standard way of developing application

Monolithic

Challenges of monolithic architecture

• Application is too large and complex
• Parts are more tangled into each other
• You can only scale the entire app , instead of a specific service
• Higher infrastructure costs
• Difficultly if services need different dependency versions