People keep using this word "monolith"-- I don't think it means what you think it means(tm). A crappy old system can be crappy because of the way it's written

People keep using this word "monolith"-- I don't think it means what you think it means(tm). A crappy old system can be crappy because of the way it's written or the people writing it. If, as mentioned in one of the linked articles, it takes you six weeks to get a simple controller layer up and running in Java, something else is wrong, and it isn't the stack.