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by nicolaslem 1254 days ago
A monolith is not a giant blob that has to run fully on one instance or else nothing works. Although I'm sure plenty of horrible enterprise software works that way, it is not a property of a monolith.

I maintain a SaaS written as a monolith and I can absolutely spin instances that only load one part of the code and do a single thing, for example some instances only handle MQTT messages while others only serve HTTP endpoints. That does not make it microservices, it is all one code base sharing one database.