Tag Modular Monolith

Systems Engineering

When Microservices Created More Problems Than They Solved

The monolith had become difficult to work with. Deployments were getting larger. Teams were stepping on each other. Some parts of the system needed to scale independently. A small change in one area could require deploying the entire application. The…

Systems Engineering

A Real-World Architectural Trade-Off Between a Monolith, Modularity, and Selective Decomposition

One of the most interesting architecture decisions I worked through was not about choosing between two technologies. It was about deciding how much architecture we actually needed. We had a large Java/Spring application that had been running for several years.…