[patrick451]

> Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes it’s just useful to have a word to describe a particular architecture. In this particular case, “monolith” isn’t even disparaging, so if Big Microservices we’re trying to disparage monolithic architectures, why wouldn’t they use a term with a negative connotation?

This isn't the reality on the ground. Where I currently work, "Monolith" is absolutely used as a pejorative by those advocating for microservices.

[throwaway894345]

I can't speak to your workplace, but in the broader debate it's never been pejorative. It's always been neutral and descriptive. If they wanted to use a pejorative title, they could have gone with "bulky" or "cumbersome" or "inflexible" or any other number of loaded descriptors.

[edgyquant]

Right but the term monolith was used in at the latest in the 80s to describe kernels (monolithic v micro) so it’s a fairly standard term in software.