Are All Monoliths Bad?

Editor’s note: Elliott Cordo is a speaker for ODSC East this April 23–25. Be sure to check out his talk, “Data Pipeline Architecture — Stop Building Monoliths,” there!

The simple answer is no. When building any software system, when complexity is low, and engineering teams are small, a monolith may be a great place to start. In some cases, a more complex microservice implementation can be a pitfall, based on the same variables, and could be considered premature …

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