Distributed monoliths (or micro services) do have some advantages: 1. Easier for users to see "who owns what" (albeit a module pattern could fix this as well).

Distributed monoliths (or micro services) do have some advantages: 1. Easier for users to see "who owns what" (albeit a module pattern could fix this as well). 2. Different hardware resources or scaling for different parts of a monolith really isn't possible. If one module requires 16GB then everytime you scale a horizontally you must have at least 16GB, you're at the mercy of your worst module in the monolith. 3. Deploys are very difficult, and as you scale to over 10 developers increasingly becomes difficult to push up (it takes one persons bad commit to hold everyone in the organization from deploying). 4. Security boundaries are easier to define, each "module" in a monolith effectively has access to all resources for all modules. 5. Poly-languages are easier, albeit depending on the base language, you could do a lot of transpiling on a monolith but.. ew. 6. HTTP status codes and request paths can give you a clear view of how calls are happening in your system; in a monolith you'll only get stack traces generally on errors, not on successes, usually you need to invest more in static analysis and APM stuff for a monolith. 7. Microservices can be cheaper when you scale, you don't have the GCD of memory/CPU/disk requirements as you do in a monolith. 8. GCD of implementation details, if one request requires a sticky session, all of your requests require stick sessions... 9. More complex and long builds, most monoliths have component-based hot reloads, but even those can take 30s to a minute in my experience, and a full build, that's at least 20. 10. Harder to unit test, this can vary by language but without clear boundaries and resource definitions monoliths can be very tricky to unit test, microservices/distributed monoliths are inherently smaller with clearly declared resources so it becomes easier to find where and how data flows in them.