Monolith versus Microservices Design Overview
A monolithic architecture encapsulates an application’s components within a single program in an interconnected and interdependent way. In such a setup, each component and its associated components must be present for the application to be executed or compiled. This traditional unified model simplifies the initial development, testing, deployment, and scaling processes because everything is managed as one block. However, it does mean that any change affects the entire system, making updates risky and deployments cumbersome. As applications scale and complexity increase, this model can hinder rapid development and flexibility. Instead, it is highly recommended that the architecture be re-engineered to a microservices architecture. Figure 15.1 illustrates this concept, where the different components are working in isolation yet are integrated to deliver the final application stack:
Figure 15.1 – Monolithic...
