Talk:Monolithic application

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Very low quality article

The article lacks proper references and has a down view of the concept instead of explaining what it is. The article is also very focused on explaining what modules are and why they are good, getting out of the topic. I would go a step forward and say that this article has wrong information.

Edit: Please elaborate which information is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redyaung2003 (talk • contribs) 18:14, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Single-tiered

I'd argue that a monolithic system could be milti-tiered. If each one of those tiers is only used by one higher-level tier and the higher-level tier cannot function without that one-and-only lower-level tier, you have a monolithic system. --PeterRitchie (talk) 17:45, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be the need to distinguish between a Monolithic Application and a Monolithic Architecture.

In the context of Microservices there are many references to Monolithic Systems that are layered and component based. Consider this reference from the Microservices page ^[1] which refers to a "a monolithic, layered system."

Martin Fowler describes the Monolith as usually having three layers:

To start explaining the microservice style it's useful to compare it to the monolithic style: a monolithic application built as a single unit. Enterprise Applications are often built in three main parts: a client-side user interface (consisting of HTML pages and javascript running in a browser on the user's machine) a database (consisting of many tables inserted into a common, and usually relational, database management system), and a server-side application.
— http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

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Also consider this pattern description on Microservice.io:

The application has either a layered or hexagonal architecture and consists of different types of components
— http://microservices.io/patterns/monolithic.html

--Ged Byrne —Preceding undated comment added 13:50, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Miller, Joseph B. (2014). Internet Technologies and Information Services. Library and Information Science Text Series (2 ed.). ABC-CLIO. p. 269. ISBN 9781610698863. Retrieved 2015-08-04. As with many complex information technologies, there are two general architectural options: a monolithic, layered system that embodies all the needed functionalities within one large-scale solution or a modular approach based on microservice architecture (MSA). [...] MSA is a more flexible, modular strategy.

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Re: "Modularity"

The claim that traditional ("monolithic") applications lack modularity sounds like sales-talk and painting with too wide a brush. Classes, methods, functions, etc. are tools of mudularity they usually have. What they may lack is "inter-application" modularity. It's roughly comparable to claiming I am not "friendly" because I am not friendly to my neighbors. However, I may still be friendly to relatives and co-workers.

Related, there are trade-offs to increasing inter-application modularity: it's rarely a free lunch, as implied. Inter-application modularity is not a new concept nor new technology. Using it is a matter of balancing engineering and support trade-offs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.233.255.211 (talk) 18:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Miller, Joseph B. (2014). Internet Technologies and Information Services. Library and Information Science Text Series (2 ed.). ABC-CLIO. p. 269. ISBN 9781610698863. Retrieved 2015-08-04. As with many complex information technologies, there are two general architectural options: a monolithic, layered system that embodies all the needed functionalities within one large-scale solution or a modular approach based on microservice architecture (MSA). [...] MSA is a more flexible, modular strategy.

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