[Rochus]

The article represents a reasonable position.

Monolith is an unfortunate term by which everyone seems to mean something different. So is any application whose parts do not communicate via network interfaces a "monolith"? Is an application where the majority of the function calls are not realized as a series of network transactions (like CORBA at that time) a less good application than one where different classes and modules on the same machine communicate directly with each other?

We should stop using the term, nor assigning blanket value attributes to it. "Monolyth" is not the antonym to "Microservices", as suggested by the article. From a certain distance, every system looks like a monolith; that has more to do with the viewer than the system.