Even though microservice architecture is growing in popularity nowadays, the majority of companies still use the monolithic architecture. As a monolithic application, you can bundle all business modules into one single unit and deploy them in all desired servers. If any changes are needed in the application, developers have to provide them and redeploy the updated version of the application. In monolithic, we follow tight coupling between service modules.
Though monolithic architecture has some benefits, its drawbacks paved the way for an alternate architectural design—microservices. Here we will talk a little about the drawbacks of monolithic architecture:
- For each bug fix or code change, we have to redeploy the entire application on all servers
- If any common issue persists in the monolithic application, such as performance issues, it will impact the entire application, which might be hard to find out and fix quickly
- Bigger applications might take longer...