Chapter 10

Building Monoliths Like You Mean It

Building clean and uncompromised Monoliths is not a pipe dream, and is the best choice for a large number of systems. It’s also not as easy to achieve as 1-2-3. It requires thought, skill, discipline, and determination—much the same mindset needed when creating Microservices.

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The running case study introduced in Chapter 1, and carried throughout this book, is continued in this chapter. If some context within the examples seems to be missing, please see previous chapters.

To lead off, we’ll provide a recap of why Monoliths are a good choice in many cases, at least early on, and how Monolithic architectures can be created effectively by using the previously defined strategic toolset. Organizations ...

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