My Dear Monolith

Monoliths cover multiple aspects of an organization and often show unregulated growth, commonly known as big-ball of mud. They are usually to big to benefit from a cloud deployment and certainly are not separating concerns. Scaling up individual parts as needed is difficult and developers facing a high cognitive load looking at a huge code base. A remote team structure usually struggles with conflicts. Breaking up such a monolith might be a real challenge since it is often the central application for data entry....

Sat, Jul 30, 2022 (last update:Sat, Jul 30, 2022) · 8 min · blog.hongkongcoder.com ·