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0 pointspatrick4514y ago0 comments

> Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes it’s just useful to have a word to describe a particular architecture. In this particular case, “monolith” isn’t even disparaging, so if Big Microservices we’re trying to disparage monolithic architectures, why wouldn’t they use a term with a negative connotation?

This isn't the reality on the ground. Where I currently work, "Monolith" is absolutely used as a pejorative by those advocating for microservices.

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throwaway8943454y ago

I can't speak to your workplace, but in the broader debate it's never been pejorative. It's always been neutral and descriptive. If they wanted to use a pejorative title, they could have gone with "bulky" or "cumbersome" or "inflexible" or any other number of loaded descriptors.

edgyquant4y ago

Right but the term monolith was used in at the latest in the 80s to describe kernels (monolithic v micro) so it’s a fairly standard term in software.

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0 pointspatrick4514y ago0 comments

This isn't the reality on the ground. Where I currently work, "Monolith" is absolutely used as a pejorative by those advocating for microservices.

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throwaway8943454y ago

edgyquant4y ago

Right but the term monolith was used in at the latest in the 80s to describe kernels (monolithic v micro) so it’s a fairly standard term in software.

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