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What is the monolithic architecture?

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What is the monolithic architecture?

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- [Instructor] One of the most prominent architectural styles in the industry for several years now is the monolithic architecture. At some point, you've probably opened your favorite code editor, created a new application, added the logic, created its database, and wrote its data access components. What you did was an example of a monolithic architecture. With this architectural style, the system components are coupled together in generally used as a single unit. This architectural style is a good fit for small applications or projects where the objective is to determine whether a product is viable. For example, in startups, some of the advantages that we can highlight are that the development and maintenance are simple. The deployment is simple. The communication between components is nothing more than instantiating an object and invoking its members. And in general, it's easy to understand. However, when the application grows in size, it becomes much more complicated to maintain…

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