Lexicon

Control-Flow-Centric Monolith

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: lexicon:control-flow-centric-monolith

Canonical: Lexicon

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

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Streaming Parsers and before Data Dependencies.

Category

  • Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing

Negated by

  • Dataflow Architecture

Linked from

  • Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing