Do you mean “a monolith” or “the monolith?” The essential characteristic of monoliths is that you don’t get to start new ones for new projects. The real skill

Do you mean “a monolith” or “the monolith?” The essential characteristic of monoliths is that you don’t get to start new ones for new projects. The real skill of architecture is understanding everything your company has built before and finding the most graceful way to graft your new use case onto that. We get microservices proliferation because people don’t want to do this hard work.