Has Monolithic Architecture Gotten a Bad Rap?
The trend that defined computing architecture during the 2010s was containerization, and it was this trend that lifted The New Stack as a publication to its position as the pre-eminent publisher of open source infrastructure news. Nearly every major vendor in this space, at this time, defined containerization as a kind of exodus away from “monolithic architecture,” where all components of an application or suite were locked together in a cohesive system. The slowdown in containerization’s growth pattern led leaders in the infrastructure space to begin asking, what was so wrong with cohesive system architecture to begin with?