# Control-Flow-Centric Monolith

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

Record: `lexicon: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#lexicon-control-flow-centric-monolith

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Streaming Parsers](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/streaming-parsers.md) and before [Data Dependencies](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/data-dependencies.md).

## Category

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

## Negated by

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

## Linked from

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