Monolithic architecture

In today’s world, the debate is still going on about which architecture suits best in every perspective. We will discuss in a shorter context about this topic.

Monolithic is a coupled, single-packed architecture that combines all the services related to the business under a single shed. It includes all related services such as web server, load balancer, database, UI/UX, business layer, and interfaces. It integrated everything into a single-piece server as a product.

Examples of such organizations such as Facebook, GitHub, Epic System, and WordPress.




We will see the pros and cons of using monolithic architecture.

Benefits

Easy deployment: Since monolith is a single unit, it is easy to deploy.

No coupling time: There is no run-time and design-time coupling between multiple components.

Operations: Operations that take place locally and can be done in ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) implementations since it uses a single database.

Performance: Due to a single repository, one API is sufficient to perform all the functions.

Drawbacks

Slower deployment: As the name says, if any small changes are made in a single part of the architecture, the entire architecture should be changed accordingly.

Time-consumption: It’s a time-consuming process due to modifying takes a lot of time.

Redeployment: It’s not an easy task to restructure the entire architecture.

Complex structure: A monolithic application takes a longer time to develop and it is more complex and slower.

Reliability: The entire system will be affected if one module gets any error and stops the product.

Maintenance: It costs high maintenance due to the single components which contain all subdomains.

Still, it has many advantages and disadvantages,75% of the companies are using monolithic architecture. Architecture has been decided to structure based on the requirement. So, it plays a crucial role when you want to build perfect software.

 

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