Monolith Architecture

Kind: style

Layer: Structural Core

Aliases: Monolith

Record: architecture:monolith-architecture

Severity: contextual

Scope: application, deployment

Canonical: Ontology

A convention of deploying a system as one unit, with its modules kept apart by internal boundaries.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Microservices and before Pipes and Filters.

Requires

• Unified Deployment Boundary

Reinforces

• Operational Simplicity

Enables

• Transactional Simplicity

Conflicts with

• Big Ball of Mud

In tension with

• Team Autonomy
• Independent Scaling

Tensions

• Monolith Architecture / Team Autonomy
• Monolith Architecture / Independent Scaling

Violated by

• Big Ball of Mud

Refactored by

• Define Module Boundaries

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Codebase / System Architecture Styles

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• Core Modular Design
• Quality Attributes
• Severity levels
• The resolutions