Monoliths & Microservices
An Opinionated Overview
Posts
| 2022-07-18
(updated 2025-10-23)
| 6 min read
#devops
#infrastructure
#microservices
#monoliths
#software-architecture
Ever since diving into the software development world I was troubled by a duality:
On the one hand I have built and operated many services described as monolithic with relative ease, on the other hand I’m always told I, and others, should build microservices because they are better in a variety of ways.
With this post I’m going to compare both software architectures by looking at the key benefits often associated with microservices and additional considerations I think are important.