Monolith
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
A monolith is one big application that does everything. User management, payments, emails, notifications — all in the same codebase, deployed together. Simple to start with, harder to scale as it grows. Most successful apps started as monoliths.
Real Talk
A monolithic application is a single, unified codebase where all components (UI, business logic, data access) are tightly coupled and deployed as one unit. Simpler to develop and deploy initially, but can become difficult to scale and maintain as the codebase grows.
When You'll Hear This
"We're still on the monolith — microservices are overkill for now." / "The monolith is getting too big; time to extract some services."
Related Terms
Microservice
Microservices is an architecture where instead of one big app, you have many tiny apps that each do one thing.
MVC (MVC)
MVC is like a restaurant: the Model is the kitchen (data and logic), the View is the plate of food (what the user sees), and the Controller is the waiter (...
Serverless
Serverless doesn't mean there are no servers — it means YOU don't have to think about servers. Someone else manages them, scales them, and patches them.