[mlrtime]

Data Storage and Compute should be separate orthogonal issues, it's not needed in this comparison.

Stateful vs Stateless.

Your monolith is a binary that gets distributed to hosts to perform some function. The binary has multiple entry points that can be envoked. Most calls are via internal library call.

Microserverices (also stateless) have a different artifacts for each component, services call other services via a private API (often grpc/httprc).

[konart]

Good point. I was just trying to (awkwardly) say that monolith can also be split into a separate parts communicating via a private API.