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Monolithic vs. Microservice: Which Architecture Should You Choose?
Know both of them and select the one that fits your needs.
Every web developer is already familiar with monolithic and microservice. Developers debate a lot about these topics. We can build a beautiful, functional application with both of them. The main thing is to know both of them very closely and pick one as per your need. Let's discuss both monolithic and microservice.
Monolithic Architecture
Monolithic architecture is a setup that is used for the traditional server-side systems. Here in this architecture, the entire system is based on a single application.
Suppose you need an application where some features are auth, posts, comments, users, and requests. And we have a database to communicate with all the features. Here the whole application uses the same database, same filesystems, and others.
If we need some more features in our existing application, we will add them to our existing application. So the system will be getting more significant day by day.
There is no hassle to communicate with other services because all of them are in the same application. Internal communication is also faster than the others.
Now let’s talk about the benefits of this kind of architecture.
- Faster to develop at the beginning
- Much quicker than the microservice architecture
- Build a whole system is much easier
- Reuse other services code is much easier
- Data tracking is easier
- Testing is much easier
- Monolith architecture has better throughput performance than microservice
- Single codebase and deploy unit
Pros of monolith
- Tightly coupled is a major issue of monolith architecture
- Difficult to understand when the application is larger
