Monolithic vs. Microservice: Which Architecture Should You Choose?

Know both of them and select the one that fits your needs.

Shoaib Mehedi
Coders Equity

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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.

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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.

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