What is presented here as a monolith is, however, what the word "monolith" means in current design conversations that I hear in workplaces. Also, I don't think

What is presented here as a monolith is, however, what the word "monolith" means in current design conversations that I hear in workplaces. Also, I don't think the article was trying to advocate monoliths > microservices, but rather more like "it's ok to use a monolith if that works, and at first it probably will". Because true microservices introduces a lot of infrastructure work at the very beginning, when you desperately need to be working on code for your basic product.