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Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr... by strix_varius on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:40PM (#32005055)
Typically, "monolith" implies services - ie, the "backing services" from a traditional 12-factor monolith:

- https://12factor.net/backing-services

Monolith vs. Microservices comes about because microservices proponents specifically set it up as an alternative to a traditional monolith + services stack:

- https://www.nginx.com/learn/microservices-architecture/#:~:t...

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Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr... by gedy on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @08:35PM (#32008652)
> Typically, "monolith" implies services - ie, the "backing services"

I don't know if that's a common interpretation - in the monolith-loving companies I've worked with it very much meant a single ball of code (e.g. huge Rails app), not separate services.

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