# Control-Flow-Centric Monolith

> A monolith driven by imperative control flow rather than data dependencies, so stages cannot run or scale independently.

Record: `lex:control-flow-centric-monolith`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-control-flow-centric-monolith

## category

- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)

## referenced-by

- [Dataflow Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dataflow-architecture.md)